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Definitions: Lightsomeness |
LightsomenessNoun1. The cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you. 2. The gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble. 3. The trait of being lighthearted and frivolous. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lightsomeness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
Synonyms: LightsomenessSynonyms: agility (n), carefreeness (n), insouciance (n), legerity (n), lightheartedness (n), lightness (n), nimbleness (n). (additional references) |
| Language | Translations for "lightsomeness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Vietnamese | lông bông (lightsome), tính thanh nhã tính vui vẻ, tính tươi cười tính nhẹ dạ, sự duyên dáng (attractiveness, delicacy), dáng nhẹ nhàng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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Words beginning with "lightsomeness": lightsomenesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-h-i-l-m-n-o-s-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: ghostliness, lightnesses. | |
-3 letters: hessonites, holinesses, homeliness, hominesses, hostessing, limestones, loginesses, metheglins, milestones, slightness, slingshots, songsmiths. | |
-4 letters: egestions, englishes, essonites, gemstones, glossemes, glossiest, gneissose, helmeting, helotisms, hessonite, histogens, holsteins, homeliest, homesites, honesties, hosteling, hotnesses, lightness, lightsome, limestone, lionesses, litheness, lithesome, mestinoes, metheglin, milestone, moistness, molesting, monetises, monthlies, nightless, noiseless, semigloss, semitones, sheetings, sightless, sightseen. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-h-i-l-m-n-o-s-s-s-t" | |
+2 letters: lightsomenesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 69 67 68 74 73 6F 6D 65 6E 65 73 73 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .. --. .... - ... --- -- . -. . ... ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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