light-heartedness

See also: lightheartedness

English edit

light-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.