Frivolity is a type of clownishness or silliness. Frivolity is the opposite of getting down to business in a serious way. If people are running around a classroom, throwing things, and laughing, the teacher might say, Why all the frivolity?. This is a word for clowning or horsing around â not being serious.
The definition of whilom is something former, or that once was. 1  An example of something whilom is a friend that you were close to in middle school. 2  An example of something whilom is a job that you once had.
behavior typical of that portrayed in a melodrama, i.e., characterized by extremes of emotion. mercuriality. 1. the state or quality of having a lively, fickle, volatile, or erratic attitude or charaeter. 2. an instance of such behavior. â mercurial, adj. milksopism. 1. the state or quality of being a weak and ineffectual person. 2. behavior or attitudes typical of a such a person. mimicism. an intense (and sometimes injurious) tendency to mimicry. mountebankism. boastful and pretentious behavior; quackery or any actions typical of a mountebank. Also mountebankery. muckerism. behavior characteristic of a boorish person.