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Lightsomeness

noun
1.
The cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you.  Synonyms: carefreeness, insouciance, lightheartedness.
2.
The gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble.  Synonyms: agility, legerity, lightness, nimbleness.
3.
The trait of being lighthearted and frivolous.  Synonym: lightness.






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"Lightsomeness" Quotes from Famous Books



... sensibility; proud, and gifted (probably by the circumstances in which he was placed) with an energy which the softness and impressibility of his nature needed.—As for the little girl, all the squalor of the abode served but to set off her lightsomeness and brightsomeness. She was a pale, large-eyed little thing, and it might have been supposed that the air of the house and the contiguity of the burial-place had a bad effect upon her health. Yet I hardly think this could have been the case, for she was of a very airy nature, dancing and sporting ...
— Doctor Grimshawe's Secret - A Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne



Words linked to "Lightsomeness" :   blitheness, lightsome, silliness, cheerfulness, gracefulness, giddiness



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