Frivolities [noun]
Definition of Frivolities:
silliness, childishness
Synonyms of Frivolities:
● Levity
● Whimsy
● Gaiety
● Jest
● Sport
● Frippery
● Trifling
● Play
● Flirting
● Nonsense
● Game
● Folly
● Fun
● Flummery
● Toying
● Fribble
Sentence/Example of Frivolities:
Capricious frivolities had to make way for a manlier art, matter “that was worthy to rivet the gaze of a free nation upon itself.”
Like Luther, he had no time for frivolities, and looked upon himself as commissioned to do important work.
They were captivated by trifles and frivolities, rather than directing their strength to the end in view.
We shall lead the country life, though he'll have to come to London now and again for his serious 'frivolities.'
Like a true femme galante of the seventeenth century, she coloured her very frivolities with an air of culture.
The follies and frivolities of fashionable life slay their thousands where hard study slays its one.
Soon his attention was drawn from such frivolities as these to more serious matters.
He is weary both of dissipation and of the youthful frivolities 169 which are injuring and belittling him.
Whatever frivolities might fill his idle hours, there was no question of his attention to duty when the call came.
My thought was to educate her to a somewhat higher ideal of life than the frivolities of a fashionable world.