English

Noun

lightheartedness ‎(countable and uncountable, plural lightheartednesses)

1. (uncountable) The property of being lighthearted, joyous, cheerful, without a care.
2. (countable) An amusement or item of a pleasant but inconsequential nature.
   • 2009, Mica Pollock, Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School, ISBN 1400826128, 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

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