Gravity
Gravity noun - A mental state free of jesting or trifling.
Usage example: the hospital waiting room was filled with the kind of gravity that inevitably accompanies worry
Nearby Word: gravitation
Levity
Levity noun - A lack of seriousness often at an improper time.
Usage example: the teachers disapprove of any displays of levity during school assemblies
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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In a corollary to this theory, dogs make people laugh so they can collect levity, which is the opposite of gravity.
Source: It Runs on Nonsensoleum -
Then they use the stored levity to cancel out cats' gravity, so their owners will get off the couch and play with them.
Source: It Runs on Nonsensoleum
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