Meanings
nounflippancy (countable and uncountable, plural flippancies)
plural flippancies · alternative flippance
- countableuncountableA disrespectful levity or pertness especially in respect to grave or sacred matters.
"It was the same direction from which the American had come. Something terrible lay that way. It was my business to find out what it was." "What did you do?" My flippancy was all gone.
1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian непочтителност
- непочтителност (nepočtitelnost)disrespectful levity or pertness
Dutch lichtzinnigheid
- lichtzinnigheiddisrespectful levity or pertness
German Leichfertigkeit, fehlende Ernsthaftigkeit
- Leichfertigkeitdisrespectful levity or pertness
- fehlende Ernsthaftigkeitdisrespectful levity or pertness
- mangelnder Ernstdisrespectful levity or pertness
Irish braise, braschaint
- braisedisrespectful levity or pertness
- braschaintdisrespectful levity or pertness
- deiliúsdisrespectful levity or pertness
- fídireachtdisrespectful levity or pertness
- soibealtachtdisrespectful levity or pertness
Portuguese leviandade
- leviandadedisrespectful levity or pertness
Spanish falta de seriedad
- falta de seriedaddisrespectful levity or pertness
Cite this entry
APA
flippancy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flippancy
MLA
“flippancy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flippancy. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “flippancy,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flippancy.
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