• Lightness

    Origin 1

    from light, the noun

    Full definition of lightness

    Noun

    lightness

    (countable and uncountable; plural lightnesss)
    1. (uncountable) the condition of being illuminated
    2. (uncountable) the relative whiteness or transparency of a colour
    3. (countable) The product of being illuminated.

    Origin 2

    From light, the adjective.

    Noun

    lightness

    (uncountable)
    1. The state of having little weight, or little force.
    2. Agility of movement.
    3. Freedom from worry.
      • In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
    4. Levity, frivolity; inconsistency.
      • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York 2001, p. 75:Seneca ... accounts it a filthy lightness in men, every day to lay new foundations of their life, but who doth otherwise?

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