lightheartedness
See also: light-heartedness
English
Etymology
lighthearted + -ness
Noun
lightheartedness (countable and uncountable, plural lightheartednesses)
- (uncountable) The property of being lighthearted, joyous, cheerful, without a care.
- (countable) An amusement or item of a pleasant but inconsequential nature.
- 2009, Mica Pollock, Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School, →ISBN, page x:
- 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.
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Synonyms
- (property of being lighthearted) joyousness, cheerfulness, carefreedom, carefreeness
- (an amusement) amusement, pleasantry
Translations
the state of being joyous, cheerful
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