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light-headedness

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Synonyms & Antonyms of light-headedness

a lack of seriousness often at an improper time

teenagers, with all of their usual light-headedness, are not the best audience for this serious play

Synonyms for light-headedness

facetiousness,
flightiness,
flippancy,
frivolity,
frivolousness,
frothiness,
levity,
light-mindedness,
lightness,
silliness

Words Related to light-headedness

cheer,
cheerfulness,
festivity,
gaiety
(also gayety),
glee,
gleefulness,
high-spiritedness,
hilarity,
joviality,
lightheartedness,
merriment,
mirth,
mirthfulness

childishness,
goofiness,
puerility

Near Antonyms for light-headedness

dejection,
depression,
despondency,
dispiritedness,
downheartedness,
gloom,
gloominess,
heartsickness,
joylessness,
melancholy,
mopes,
moroseness,
sadness,
sullenness,
unhappiness

Antonyms for light-headedness

earnestness,
gravity,
seriousness,
soberness,
solemnity,
solemnness

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