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.

Synonyms

(property of being lighthearted) joyousness, cheerfulness, carefreedom, carefreeness
(an amusement) amusement, pleasantry

Translations

the state of being joyous, cheerful

Maori: hiwa

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