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lightheartedness

noun

Etymology

From lighthearted (adjective) (any sense) + -ness (suffix forming nouns).

  1. inherited from lyght hertyd
  2. formed as lightheartedness — “lighthearted + -ness”

Definitions

  1. The state of being lighthearted, joyous, cheerful, without a care.

  2. 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA