lightheartedness
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See also: light-heartedness
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From lighthearted (adjective) (any sense) + -ness (suffix forming nouns).
Pronunciation[edit]
- enPR: lītʹhär't(ĭ)d-nĕs
- Hyphenation: light‧heart‧ed‧ness
Noun[edit]
lightheartedness (countable and uncountable, plural lightheartednesses)
- (uncountable) The state 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.
Synonyms[edit]
- (property of being lighthearted) joyousness, cheerfulness, carefreedom, carefreeness, playfulness
- (an amusement) amusement, pleasantry
Related terms[edit]
- lightheartedly (adverb)
Translations[edit]
the state of being joyous, cheerful
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