Lightness \Light"ness\, n. [From Light not heavy.]
The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not
heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; nimbleness; delicacy;
grace.
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Syn: Levity; volatility; instability; inconstancy;
unsteadiness; giddiness; flightiness; airiness; gayety;
liveliness; agility; nimbleness; sprightliness;
briskness; swiftness; ease; facility.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lightness \Light"ness\, n. [From Light bright.]
1. Illumination, or degree of illumination; as, the lightness
of a room. --Chaucer.
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2. Absence of depth or of duskiness in color; as, the
lightness of a tint; lightness of complexion.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
lightness
n 1: the property of being comparatively small in weight; "the
lightness of balsa wood" [syn: weightlessness] [ant: heaviness]
2: the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and
nimble [syn: agility, legerity, lightsomeness, nimbleness]
3: having a light color [ant: darkness]
4: the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as
created in pictures; "he could paint the lightest light
and the darkest dark" [syn: light]
WordNet (r) 2.0
208 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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