The trait of being frivolous; not serious or sensible.

synoniem: frivolousness.

Roget 499: want of intelligence etc. 498, want of intellect etc. 450; shadowness^†, silliness, foolishness etc. adj.; imbecility, incapacity, vacancy of mind, poverty of intellect, weakness of intellect, clouded perception, poor head, apartments to let; stupidity, stolidity; hebetude^†, dull understanding, meanest capacity, shortsightedness; incompetence etc. (unskillfulness) 699.    one's weak side, not one's strong point; bias etc. 481; infatuation etc. (insanity) 503.    simplicity, puerility, babyhood; dotage, anility^†, second childishness, fatuity; idiocy, idiotism^†; driveling.    folly, frivolity, irrationality, trifling, ineptitude, nugacity^†, inconsistency, lip wisdom, conceit; sophistry etc. 477; giddiness etc. (inattention) 458; eccentricity etc. 503; extravagance etc. (absurdity) 497; rashness etc. 863.    act of folly etc. 699.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: frivoliteit
Pools: pustota

Something of little value or significance.

synoniemen: bagatelle, fluff, frippery.

Roget 643: unimportance, insignificance, nothingness, immateriality.    triviality, levity, frivolity; paltriness etc. adj.; poverty; smallness etc. 32; vanity etc. (uselessness) 645; matter of indifference etc. 866; no object.    nothing, nothing to signify, nothing worth speaking of, nothing particular, nothing to boast of, nothing to speak of; small matter, no great matter, trifling matter etc. adj.; mere joke, mere nothing; hardly anything; scarcely anything; nonentity, small beer, cipher; no great shakes, peu de chose [Fr.]; child's play, kinderspiel.    toy, plaything, popgun, paper pellet, gimcrack, gewgaw, bauble, trinket, bagatelle, Rickshaw, knickknack, whim-wham, trifle, trifles light as air;" yankee notions [U.S.].    trumpery, trash, rubbish, stuff, fatras^†, frippery; leather or prunello;" chaff, drug, froth bubble smoke, cobweb; weed; refuse etc. (inutility) 645; scum etc. (dirt) 653.    joke, jest, snap of the fingers; fudge etc. (unmeaning) 517; fiddlestick^†, fiddlestick end^†; pack of nonsense, mere farce.    straw, pin, fig, button, rush; bulrush, feather, halfpenny, farthing, brass farthing, doit^†, peppercorn, jot, rap, pinch of snuff, old son; cent, mill, picayune, pistareen^†, red cent [U.S.].    minutiae, details, minor details, small fry; dust in the balance, feather in the scale, drop in the ocean, flea-bite, molehill.    nine days' wonder, ridiculus mus [Lat.]; flash in the pan etc. (impotence) 158; much ado about nothing etc. (overestimation) 482.    ... meer laten zien

Acting like a clown or buffoon.

synoniemen: buffoonery, clowning, harlequinade, japery, prank.