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light-mindedness

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Synonyms and Antonyms of light-mindedness

a lack of seriousness often at an improper time

she displays a light-mindedness that might be excusable in a teenager but not in someone hoping to make it in the business world

Synonyms of light-mindedness

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

Words Related to light-mindedness

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

childishness, goofiness, puerility

Near Antonyms of light-mindedness

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

Antonyms of light-mindedness

earnestness, gravity, seriousness, soberness, solemnity, solemnness

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