Flippancy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flippancy \Flip"pan*cy\, n.[See {Flippant}.]
     The state or quality of being flippant.
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           This flippancy of language.              --Bp. Hurd.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  flippancy
       n : inappropriate levity [syn: {light-mindedness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  106 Moby Thesaurus words for "flippancy":
     absentmindedness, banter, booing, brashness, brassiness,
     brazenfacedness, brazenness, carelessness, catcalling, chaffing,
     cheek, cheekiness, cockiness, contempt, derision, discourtesy,
     disregard, disregardfulness, disrespect, disrespectfulness,
     distraction, face of brass, facetiousness, fleering, flightiness,
     fooling, freshness, frivolity, frivolousness, giddiness, grinning,
     heedlessness, hissing, hooting, impertinence, impishness,
     impudence, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention,
     inattentiveness, inconsideration, incuriosity, indifference,
     inobservance, insolence, irreverence, jeering, jocularity, joshing,
     leering, levity, lightmindedness, lip, merriment, mischievousness,
     mockery, mouth, negligence, nonobservance, obliviousness,
     offhandedness, panning, pertness, playfulness, prankishness,
     pranksomeness, ragging, raillery, rallying, razzing,
     regardlessness, ridicule, roasting, roguishness, rudeness,
     sauciness, scoffing, shallowness, side, smart-aleckiness,
     smartness, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting,
     sportiveness, superficiality, taunting, thoughtlessness, trickery,
     trickiness, twitting, unalertness, unawareness, unconsciousness,
     unheedfulness, unintentiveness, unmindfulness, unobservance,
     unwariness, unwatchfulness, volatility, waggery, waggishness