Definition of Lightsomeness

1. Noun. The cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you.


2. Noun. The gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble.
Exact synonyms: Agility, Legerity, Lightness, Nimbleness
Generic synonyms: Gracefulness
Derivative terms: Agile, Light, Lightsome, Nimble

3. Noun. The trait of being lighthearted and frivolous.
Exact synonyms: Lightness
Generic synonyms: Giddiness, Silliness
Derivative terms: Light, Light

Definition of Lightsomeness

1. Noun. (archaic) The quality of being lightsome. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lightsomeness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lightsomeness

lights
lights, camera, action
lights-out
lights out
lights up
lightsaber
lightsabers
lightsabre
lightsabres
lightshift
lightshifts
lightship
lightships
lightsome
lightsomely
lightsomeness (current term)
lightsomenesses
lightspeed
lightspeed lag
lightstick
lightsticks
lightstruck
lightswitch
lightswitches
lighttight
lightvessel
lightvessels
lightwave
lightwaves
lightweight

Literary usage of Lightsomeness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English by John Walker (1823)
"... llte'sim. a. luminous; gay lightsomeness, llte'sSm-nes. t. luminousness; a lieutenant ; the body of lieutenants Lieutenant, lev-ten'nimt. sa deputy ..."

2. Zaidee: A Romance from Blackwood's Magazine by Oliphant (Margaret) (1856)
"The days of mourning for Squire Percy were over, and the household heart had sprung again into the returning lightsomeness of nature and youth, ..."

3. Selections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Ellesmere Text) by Geoffrey Chaucer (1896)
"Whether the Englishness (to retain the colloquialism) or the lightsomeness ought to rank first in a just analysis of the elements of Chaucer's writings ..."

4. Lives of the Governors of Pennsylvania: With the Incidental History of the by William Crawford Armor (1872)
"There was a lightsomeness, a joyousness, that made his very step elastic in the ... Under that lightsomeness, that joyousness which imparted to his general ..."

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