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Lightsomeness

Definitions: Lightsomeness

Lightsomeness

Noun

1. 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: Lightsomeness

Synonyms: agility (n), carefreeness (n), insouciance (n), legerity (n), lightheartedness (n), lightness (n), nimbleness (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Lightsomeness

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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Derivations: Lightsomeness

Derivations

Words beginning with "lightsomeness": lightsomenesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Lightsomeness

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Lightsomeness


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 69 67 68 74 73 6F 6D 65 6E 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "lightsomeness"


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Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "lightsomeness"

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