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Definition of Lightheartedness
1. Noun. The cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you.
Generic synonyms: Blitheness, Cheerfulness
Derivative terms: Carefree, Insouciant, Lighthearted, Lightsome
Definition of Lightheartedness
1. Noun. The property of being lighthearted, joyous, cheerful, without a care. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lightheartedness
Literary usage of Lightheartedness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Love Sonnets of Proteus by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1898)
"TO THE SAME, ON HER lightheartedness. I would I had thy courage, dear, to face
This bankruptcy of love, and greet despair With smiling eyes and unconcerned ..."
2. Paris Reborn: A Study in Civic Psychology by Herbert Adams Gibbons (1915)
"The Paris that works, and that stuck bravely to its work, did not lose its grip.
Nor did it lose its original traditional lightheartedness. ..."
3. A Word to Women by C E Humphry (1898)
"lightheartedness. OH ! what a delightful quality it is, ... Light- ,. , , ...
., - , lightheartedness is some- heartedness times confused with " animal and ..."
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