flippancyn.
/ˈflɪp(ə)nsi/, U.S. /ˈflɪpənsi/ The quality of being flippant; esp. disposition to trifle, frivolity; occasionally in earlier use, Volubility.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > emptiness or insubstantiality > frivolity or lack of seriousness
nugationc1450
nugacity1593
fiddling1622
frivolousnessa1631
nugality1676
futility1692
futileness1727
flippancy1746
frivolity1796
nugatoriness1853
frippery1855
fiddle1874
fribble1881
frivolling1882
fribblery1889
trifledom1903
the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > lack of seriousness > [noun]
levity1564
unseriousness1672
flippancy1746
flippery1819
the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun]
overspeecheOE
tongue-itch1540
multiloquy1542
long tongue1557
garrulity1581
slipperiness1589
polylogy1602
volubility1602
loquacity1603
lubricity1603
tonguiness1607
overspeakinga1610
talkativeness1609
philology1623
tongue-vice1628
glibness1633
futility1640
linguacity1656
garrulousness1727
linguosity1727
loquaciousness1727
multiloquiousness1727
jaw1748
multiloquence1760
flippancy1789
verbal diarrhoea1808
magpiety1832
big mouth1834
pleniloquence1838
chattiness1876
open-mouthedness1883
gabbiness1887
garrulance1890
irreticence1919
talkiness1934
ear-bashing1945
mee-mawing1974
1746 H. Walpole Let. 5 Dec. in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) II. 193 The famous orator Henley is taken up for treasonable flippancies.
1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France I. 8 It filled up my notions of French flippancy agreeably enough.
1807 tr. C. A. G. Goede Stranger in Eng. II. 183 A continued flippancy of chit-chat in the boxes.
1808 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 19 15 He..with asperity and flippancy adverted to a remarkable case I had written on nearly two years back.
1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal I. ii. 64 Why, Jessie, you are generally the very essence of flippancy.
1892 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. (new ed.) I. 268 Effeminate prejudices and mere flippancies draped in elaborate rhetoric.
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