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Noun lightness has 6 senses

• lightness(n = noun.feeling) elation, high spirits - a feeling of joy and pride; Array
is a kind of joy, joyfulness, joyousness
has particulars: euphoria, euphory
Derived form adjective light₅

• lightness(n = noun.attribute) weightlessness - the property of being comparatively small in weight; "the lightness of balsa wood"
is a kind of weight
has particulars: airiness, buoyancy
Antonym: heaviness
Derived forms adjective light₉, adjective light₁, adjective light₁₆

• lightness(n = noun.attribute) agility, legerity, lightsomeness, nimbleness - the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble; Array
is a kind of gracefulness
Derived form adjective light₁₁

• lightness(n = noun.attribute) Array - having a light color; Array
is a kind of value
Antonym: darkness
Derived form adjective light₂

• lightness(n = noun.attribute) light - the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures; "he could paint the lightest light and the darkest dark"
is a kind of visual property
has particulars: aura, aureole, gloriole, glory, halo, nimbus, sunniness, highlight, highlighting, brightness
Derived form adjective light₆

• lightness(n = noun.attribute) lightsomeness - the trait of being lighthearted and frivolous; Array
is a kind of giddiness, silliness
Derived forms adjective light₂₁, adjective light₂₀

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lightness

Munsell chroma, achroma, achromasia, achromatosis, agility, airiness, airy texture, albescence, albinism, albino, albinoism, amiable weakness, anemia, ashiness, attenuation, big deal, blondness, bloodlessness, bounce, breakability, breeziness, brightness, brittleness, buoyancy, cadaverousness, canescence, carefreeness, chalkiness, chambering, changeableness, cheerfulness, chirpiness, chloranemia, chroma, chromatic color, chromaticity, collapse, color quality, colorimetric quality, cool color, coquettishness, creaminess, daintiness, deathly hue, deathly pallor, debonairness, delicacy, destructibility, diaphanousness, dilutedness, dilution, dimness, disintegration, dullness, easy virtue, effeminacy, effervescence, elasticity, emptiness, ethereality, exiguity, exility, expansiveness, exsanguination, faddishness, faddism, fadedness, faintness, fairness, featliness, fickleness, fineness, flightiness, flimsiness, flippancy, fluffiness, foolishness, fragility, frailty, frangibility, frivolity, frivolousness, frostiness, frothiness, futility, gaiety, gauziness, ghastliness, glaucescence, glaucousness, gossameriness, gracility, grizzliness, haggardness, hoariness, hue, human frailty, hypochromia, hypochromic anemia, idleness, inanity, inconstancy, indecisiveness, infirmity of will, inherent vice, insubstantiality, irresolution, jauntiness, laciness, lack of depth, lactescence, laxity, leukoderma, levity, light heart, lightheartedness, lightsomeness, liveliness, lividness, loose morals, looseness, lucence, lucency, lucidity, luminosity, luminousness, mercuriality, mercurialness, milkiness, mistiness, moral weakness, muddiness, neutral color, nimbleness, nugacity, paleness, pallidity, pallidness, pallor, paperiness, pastiness, pearliness, perkiness, pertness, prison pallor, promiscuity, purity, rarity, resilience, resiliency, sallowness, saturation, shallow-wittedness, shallowness, sickliness, sickly hue, silliness, silver, silveriness, skittishness, sleaziness, sleeping around, slenderness, slightness, slimness, snowiness, spryness, subtility, superficiality, swinging, tenuity, thinness, tint, tone, translucence, translucency, triflingness, triteness, triviality, trivialness, undependability, unpredictability, unprofoundness, unprofundity, unreliability, unsubstantiality, vacuity, vagueness, value, vanity, vapidity, velleity, vitiligo, vivacity, volatility, wanness, wantonness, warm color, wateriness, waywardness, weakness, white, white race, whiteness, whitishness, whorishness, wispiness, womanishness

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Levity

N levity, lightness, imponderability, buoyancy, volatility, feather, dust, mote, down, thistle, down, flue, cobweb, gossamer, straw, cork, bubble, balloon, float, buoy, ether, air, leaven, ferment, barm, yeast, lighter-than-air balloon, helium balloon, hydrogen balloon, hot air balloon, convection, thermal draft, thermal, light, subtile, airy, imponderous, imponderable, astatic, weightless, ethereal, sublimated, gossamery, suberose, suberous, uncompressed, volatile, buoyant, floating, portable, light as a feather, light as a thistle, light as air, lighter than air, rise like a balloon, float like a balloon.

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