flippancy

flippancy
    n 1: inappropriate levity; "her mood changed and she was all
         lightness and joy" [syn: {flippancy}, {light-mindedness}]
    

Flippancy \Flip"pan*cy\, n.[See {Flippant}.]
   The state or quality of being flippant.
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         This flippancy of language.              --Bp. Hurd.
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106 Moby Thesaurus words for "flippancy":
      absentmindedness, banter, booing, brashness, brassiness,
      brazenfacedness, brazenness, carelessness, catcalling, chaffing,
      cheek, cheekiness, cockiness, contempt, derision, discourtesy,
      disregard, disregardfulness, disrespect, disrespectfulness,
      distraction, face of brass, facetiousness, fleering, flightiness,
      fooling, freshness, frivolity, frivolousness, giddiness, grinning,
      heedlessness, hissing, hooting, impertinence, impishness,
      impudence, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention,
      inattentiveness, inconsideration, incuriosity, indifference,
      inobservance, insolence, irreverence, jeering, jocularity, joshing,
      leering, levity, lightmindedness, lip, merriment, mischievousness,
      mockery, mouth, negligence, nonobservance, obliviousness,
      offhandedness, panning, pertness, playfulness, prankishness,
      pranksomeness, ragging, raillery, rallying, razzing,
      regardlessness, ridicule, roasting, roguishness, rudeness,
      sauciness, scoffing, shallowness, side, smart-aleckiness,
      smartness, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting,
      sportiveness, superficiality, taunting, thoughtlessness, trickery,
      trickiness, twitting, unalertness, unawareness, unconsciousness,
      unheedfulness, unintentiveness, unmindfulness, unobservance,
      unwariness, unwatchfulness, volatility, waggery, waggishness