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Definition of Lightsomeness
1. Noun. The cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you.
Generic synonyms: Blitheness, Cheerfulness
Derivative terms: Carefree, Insouciant, Lighthearted, Lightsome
2. Noun. The gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble.
Generic synonyms: Gracefulness
Derivative terms: Agile, Light, Lightsome, Nimble
3. Noun. The trait of being lighthearted and frivolous.
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
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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