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1lightness
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of LIGHTNESS
1
the state or quality of having little weight <the first thing I noticed about the little bird was its lightness; I could hardly tell I was holding it in my hand>
Synonyms slightness, weightlessness
Related Words airiness, delicacy, ethereality, etherealness; flimsiness, fluffiness, insubstantiality
2
a lack of seriousness often at an improper time <the inappropriate lightness of the anchorman's tone while he was reading the story of the freak accident in which people had died>
Synonyms facetiousness, flightiness, flippancy, frivolousness, frothiness, levity, light-headedness, light-mindedness, lightness, silliness
Related Words cheer, cheerfulness, festivity, gaiety (also gayety), glee, gleefulness, high-spiritedness, hilarity, joviality, lightheartedness, merriment, mirth, mirthfulness; childishness, goofiness, puerility
Near Antonyms dejection, depression, despondency, dispiritedness, downheartedness, gloom, gloominess, heartsickness, joylessness, melancholy, mopes, moroseness, sadness, sullenness, unhappiness
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