Lightheartedness

Definitions: Lightheartedness

Lightheartedness

Noun

1. The cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you.

Date "lightheartedness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)

Synonyms: Lightheartedness

Synonyms: carefreeness (n), insouciance (n), lightsomeness (n). (additional references)

"Lightheartedness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lightheartedness" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	8	124,375

Language		Translations for "lightheartedness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Czech		veselost (gaiety, glee, hilarity, jocundity, jollity, joviality, merriness, pleasantry). (various references)

French		vertige, étourderie (lightness). (various references)

German		fröhlichkeit (blithesomeness, cheerfulness, conviviality, festiveness, gaiety, gayness, gladness, gleefulness, happiness, jauntiness, jolliness, jollity, joviality, joyance, joyfulness, merriment, mirth). (various references)

Hebrew		עליזות (cheerfulness, fun, gaiety, joy, mirth, playfulness). (various references)

Italian		giovialità (cheerfulness, joviality, rejoicing). (various references)

Pig Latin		ightheartednesslay

Russian		беззаботность (carelessness, insouciance, light-heartedness, nonchalance, unconcern). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		veselost (cheerfulness, exuberance, exuberancy, facetiousness, happiness, jocosity, jollity, joviality, joy, mirth, pleasantry), raspoloženje (humor, humour, mood, spirit, spirit level, temper). (various references)

Spanish		jovialidad (cheerfulness, joviality), alegría (breeziness, cheerfulness, chuff, contention, contentment, fun, gaiety, gladness, happiness, hilarity, joy, joyfulness, kaif, keif, liveliness, merriment, mirth, perkiness, pertness, playfulness, rejoicing). (various references)

Swedish		sorglöshet (carelessness, ease, insouciance). (various references)

Turkish		gamsızlık. (various references)

Turkmen		wдюilik. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	hilaritas, hilaritate, hilaritatem. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "lightheartedness": lightheartednesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Lightheartedness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: liteheartedness. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-g-h-h-i-l-n-r-s-s-t-t"
	-4 letters: lighthearted, literateness, straightened, stringhalted.
	-5 letters: detasseling, disenthrals, disheartens, earthlights, earthliness, earthshines, eighteenths, generalised, generalises, generalists, healthiness, highlanders, letterheads, nearsighted, nightshades, relatedness, retightened, sergeanties, singletrees, straightens, stringhalts, teethridges, threadiness.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-e-g-h-h-i-l-n-r-s-s-t-t"
	+2 letters: lightheartednesses.
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