light-heartedness
See also: lightheartedness
English
editEtymology
editFrom light-hearted + -ness.
Noun
editlight-heartedness (countable and uncountable, plural light-heartednesses)
- Alternative form of lightheartedness
- 1993, Julie D. Prandi, "Dare to be Happy!": A Study of Goethe's Ethics, →ISBN, page 187:
- As in Goethe's description of the lighthearted kind of resignation in Poetry and Truth, the end result of light-heartedness is the "blasphemous" implied conclusion that "all is vanity."
- 2011, Katharine McMahon, Season of Light, →ISBN:
- Why were they travelling unaccompanied? 'We are accompanying each other,' said Asa, 'being mistress and maid.' For this attempt at light-heartedness she received a cold-eyed stare.