lightheartedness
nounEtymology From lighthearted (adjective) (any sense) + -ness (suffix forming nouns).
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.2009, Mica Pollock, Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School, →ISBN, page x:
- Synonyms
- joyousness, cheerfulness, carefreedom, carefreeness, playfulness, amusement, pleasantry
- Related terms
- lightheartedly