Definition for Flippancy:

• Light thoughtless fluency or pertness of speech.

Synonyms for Flippancy:

• n.

  •attribute (noun)
  • light-mindedness,
  • flippancy.
  •audaciousness (noun)
  • shamelessness.
  •disrespect (noun)
  • Unmannerliness,
  • lack of respect,
  • lese majesty,
  • insolentness,
  • impoliteness,
  • irreverence,
  • sacrilege,
  • Insolency,
  • impudence.
  •flightiness (noun)
  • changeabilities,
  • in-stabilities,
  • in constancies,
  • in constancy,
  • in-constancies,
  • in stability,
  • whimsicalnesses,
  • capriciousnesses,
  • in stabilities,
  • in-constancy,
  • ficklenesses,
  • in-stability,
  • mercurialnesses,
  • airheadednesses.
  •frivolity (noun)
  • dallyings,
  • coquettings,
  • triflings,
  • non senses,
  • flummeries,
  • toyings,
  • frivolousnesses,
  • non-sense,
  • non sense,
  • fribbles,
  • shallownesses,
  • non-senses.
  •humor (noun)
  • wittinesses,
  • jokings,
  • high spiritses,
  • clownings,
  • kiddings,
  • facetiousnesses.
  •humorousness (noun)
  • humorousness.
  •ridicule (noun)
  • deprecation,
  • indignity,
  • abasement burlesque,
  • insult,
  • taunt,
  • shame,
  • disgrace,
  • denigration,
  • roast,
  • irony,
  • sneering,
  • mockery,
  • ridicule,
  • derision,
  • fun,
  • humiliation,
  • contempt,
  • caricature,
  • scorn,
  • joke,
  • jesting,
  • travesty.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • audaciousness,
  • buffoonery,
  • capriciousness,
  • changeability,
  • disrespect,
  • facetiousness,
  • fickleness,
  • flummery,
  • frivolity,
  • frivolousness,
  • high spirits,
  • humor,
  • inconstancy,
  • jest,
  • jocosity,
  • joking,
  • levity,
  • nonsense,
  • puerility,
  • sauciness,
  • shallowness,
  • sinfulness,
  • superficiality,
  • trifling,
  • variability,
  • whimsicality,
  • wittiness,
  • Buffooneries,
  • Fribble,
  • Whimsicalness,
  • Puerilities,
  • ludicrousness,
  • whimsicalities,
  • inconstancies,
  • mercurialness,
  • superficialities,
  • airheadedness,
  • variabilities,
  • lese-majesty.

Antonyms for Flippancy:

• n.

  • irreverence
    politeness, reverence, respect, seriousness, courtesy.
  • Other antonyms:
    dejection, gloominess, demureness, dispiritedness, solemnity, earnestness, despondency, modesty, depression, bashfulness, mopes, joylessness, diffidence, sadness, moroseness, melancholy, gloom, humility, shyness, unhappiness, sullenness, gravity, downheartedness, Solemnness, heartsickness, soberness.

Flippancy Sentence Examples:

• The flippancy of their words died away, and a new seriousness, a salient eventfulness, took its place.

• He pretended not to notice anything, and then in an instant he froze everything with a flippancy which jarred horribly at the time, but has ever since touched me more than all the rest.

Hyponym for Flippancy:

• n.

  • attribute
    levity.