lightheartedness

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Recent Examples of lightheartedness Quick-witted, effortlessly funny, DePaul brought a lightheartedness to the table during a particularly dark point in the story. Dana Reboe, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lightheartedness
Noun
  • Soft-spoken and unrelenting, Alboury emerges as the only moral voice in a land of postcolonial abandon, refusing to let Cal get away with what may be homicide, while disrupting Horn’s romantic first night with Leonie.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Naomi is a textbook Jewish mother, nagging and cajoling and smothering her children with logorrheic abandon.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The naturalness bias is deeply ingrained in Kennedy’s MAHA campaign, which aims to improve public health by returning to a more natural lifestyle.
    Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • While Beijing hasn’t gone as far as Moscow, its quiet abandonment of the denuclearization goal marks a subtle yet consequential shift – one that could open the door to closer China-North Korea ties, or even bolster momentum for trilateral cooperation with Russia, Zhao said.
    Nectar Gan, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
  • People can handle uncertainty, but not abandonment.
    Daisy Auger-Domínguez, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But those with long memories are tempering enthusiasm with prudence, remembering how the dot-com bubble led to unsustainable valuations and a painful crash.
    Tiz Gambacorta, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • This reveals how enthusiasm without integration discipline wastes time and capital.
    Malana VanTyler, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This is, sadly, a lost art; now everything is an elaborate ballet of calling, texting, and planning, with little room for spontaneity.
    Kara Nesvig, Parents, 12 Sep. 2025
  • While pricey, the Premier Passes offer the most flexibility and allow the kind of spontaneity that makes a Disney trip fun.
    Linnea Bailey, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Boox has added a frontlight to the display that can vary both its brightness and its color warmth.
    Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Then, there’s the power to see through all of that, through what could be perceived as pain or a negative situation, and see the colorfulness of my culture, the warmth of my culture, and the community, as well.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The pair is seen crawling through a wildflower field, dancing, and jumping, but also hollering at each other, brandishing knives, and at some point, Lawrence licks a window with zeal.
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Because of this zeal, others are ready to listen to you and, perhaps, follow your lead.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In that spirit, the exhibition resists the expectation that women and non-binary artists must define themselves in contrast to a male norm.
    Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The spirit of his work, which earned him a humanism in medicine scholarship in medical school, is what prompted him to call Sutton-Schulman.
    Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Lightheartedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lightheartedness. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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