Obs. [ad. L. type *lepiditās, f. lepid-us: see LEPID a. and -ITY.] Facetiousness, wit; an instance of this.
1647. Ward, Simp. Cobler, 84. For Levity, read Lepidity.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Lepidity, delectableness, or good grace in speech.
1694. Howe, Wks. (1834), 144/2. In a discourse upon so grave a subject some lepidities had been left out.