Meanings
nounfrivolousness (countable and uncountable, plural frivolousnesses)
plural frivolousnesses
- uncountableThe quality of being frivolous.
I felt, as usual, my own smallness next to her, the scale of what she had achieved, the frivolousness of my own occupation in comparison, despite all she’d tried to direct me towards.
2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 150 - countableThe result of being frivolous.
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frivolousness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frivolousness
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“frivolousness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frivolousness. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “frivolousness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frivolousness.
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