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light-heartedness

light-heartedness is the alternative form of lightheartedness.

Meaning of lightheartedness

Noun

lightheartedness (countable and uncountable, plural lightheartednesses)

  1. (uncountable) The state of being lighthearted, joyous, cheerful, without a care.
  2. (countable) An amusement or item of a pleasant but inconsequential nature.
    • I focus on communal descriptive problems—what I call American race talk dilemmas—rather than on all the lightheartednesses and small triumphs of daily life at Columbus.2009, Mica Pollock, Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School, →ISBN, page x
    Synonyms:
    amusement

Forms of light-heartedness

plurallight-heartednesses

Origin of light-heartedness

From light-hearted + -ness.

Questions about light-heartedness

What is light-heartedness the alternative form of?
Light-heartedness is the alternative form of lightheartedness.

Words near light-heartedness in the dictionary

  1. light-headed
  2. light-headedly
  3. light-headedness
  4. light-hearted
  5. light-heartedly
  6. light-heartedness
  7. light-heartednesses
  8. light-heeled
  9. light-horseman
  10. light-horsemen
  11. light-legged

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