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lightness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of lightness

1 the state or quality of having little weight

  • the first thing I noticed about the little bird was its lightness; I could hardly tell I was holding it in my hand
Synonyms of lightness

slightness, weightlessness
Words Related to lightness

airiness, delicacy, ethereality, etherealness

flimsiness, fluffiness, insubstantiality
Near Antonyms of lightness

solidity, solidness, substantiality
Antonyms of lightness

heaviness, heftiness, massiveness, ponderousness, weightiness

2 a lack of seriousness often at an improper time

  • the inappropriate lightness of the anchormanʼs tone while he was reading the story of the freak accident in which people had died
Synonyms of lightness

facetiousness, flightiness, flippancy, frivolity, frivolousness, frothiness, levity, light-headedness, light-mindedness, silliness
Words Related to lightness

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

childishness, goofiness, puerility
Near Antonyms of lightness

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

earnestness, gravity, seriousness, soberness, solemnity, solemnness

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lightness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of lightness

the quality or state of having or giving off light

  • the photographer was concerned that the lightness of the background would cast the main subject into shadow
Synonyms of lightness

brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, candor, dazzle, effulgence, illumination, lambency, luminance, luminosity, luminousness, luster (or lustre), lustrousness, radiance, refulgence, splendor
Words Related to lightness

blaze, flare, flash, flicker, light

fluorescence, incandescence, luminescence

burnish, gloss, polish, sheen, shine, shininess

fire, flame, glare, glow

flash, gleam, glimmer, glint, glisten, glitter, scintillation, shimmer, sparkle, twinkle
Near Antonyms of lightness

dimness, gloominess, somberness

cloudiness, haziness, murkiness, obscureness, obscurity

colorlessness, grayness, lackluster, paleness, shadiness, shadowiness
Antonyms of lightness

blackness, dark, darkness, dullness (also dulness), duskiness

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