light-heartedness

See also: lightheartedness

English

Etymology

light-hearted +‎ -ness

Noun

light-heartedness (countable and uncountable, plural light-heartednesses)

  1. Alternative form of lightheartedness
    • 1993, Julie D. Prandi, "Dare to be Happy!": A Study of Goethe's Ethics, →ISBN, page 187:
      As in Goethe's description of the lighthearted kind of resignation in Poetry and Truth, the end result of light-heartedness is the "blasphemous" implied conclusion that "all is vanity."
    • 2011, Katharine McMahon, Season of Light, →ISBN:
      Why were they travelling unaccompanied? 'We are accompanying each other,' said Asa, 'being mistress and maid.' For this attempt at light-heartedness she received a cold-eyed stare.
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