| Main Entry: | lightness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illumination |
Synonyms: |
blaze, brightness, flash, glow, light, shine, sparkle |
| Main Entry: | lightness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the state of being light |
Synonyms: |
airiness, delicacy, downiness, etherealness, featheriness, fluffiness, sheerness, thinness, volatileness |
| Main Entry: | lightness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agility |
Synonyms: |
balance, deftness, grace, nimbleness |
| Main Entry: | lightness |
| Part of Speech: | noun1, noun2, noun3 |
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Adjectives: |
| Main Entry: | delicacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daintiness, fineness of structure |
Synonyms: |
airiness, debility, diaphaneity, elegance, etherealness, exquisiteness, fragility, frailness, frailty, gossameriness, infirmity, lightness, slenderness, smoothness, softness, subtlety, tenderness, tenuity, translucency, transparency, weakness |
Antonyms: |
coarseness, heaviness, indelicacy, inelegance, robustness, roughness |
| Main Entry: | facility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ease; ability |
Synonyms: |
address, adroitness, aptitude, bent, child's play, competence, dexterity, efficiency, effortlessness, expertness, fluency, knack, leaning, lightness, poise, proficiency, propensity, quickness, readiness, skill, skillfulness, smooth sailing, smoothness, spontaneity, tact, turn, wit |
| Notes: | a facility is a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry or a skillful performance or ability without difficulty; faculty is one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind or the body of teachers and administrators at a school |
Antonyms: |
difficulty, hardness |
| Main Entry: | flightiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irresponsibility |
Synonyms: |
airheadedness, capriciousness, changeability, dizziness, fickleness, flippancy, frivolity, giddiness, inconstancy, instability, levity, lightness, mercurialness, variability, volatility, whimsicality, whimsicalness |
Antonyms: |
responsibility |
| Main Entry: | flippancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irreverence |
Synonyms: |
archness, cheek, cheekiness, cockiness, disrespectfulness, flightiness, freshness, frivolity, impertinence, impishness, impudence, levity, lightness, mischievousness, pertness, playfulness, roguishness, rudeness, sauciness, volatility, waggishness |
Antonyms: |
courtesy, respect, reverence, seriousness |
| Main Entry: | frivolity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | silliness, childishness |
Synonyms: |
coquetting, dallying, flightiness, flippancy, flirting, flummery, folly, fribble, frippery, frivolousness, fun, gaiety, game, giddiness, jest, levity, lightheartedness, lightness, nonsense, play, puerility, shallowness, sport, superficiality, toying, trifling, triviality, volatility, whimsicality, whimsy |
Antonyms: |
sensibility, seriousness, wiseness |
| Main Entry: | humor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | comedy, funniness |
Synonyms: |
amusement, badinage, banter, buffoonery, clowning, comicality, comicalness, drollery, facetiousness, farce, flippancy, fun, gag, gaiety, happiness, high spirits, jest, jesting, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, joke, joking, joyfulness, kidding, levity, lightness, playfulness, pleasantry, raillery, tomfoolery, whimsy, wisecrack, wit, witticism, wittiness |
Antonyms: |
depression, drama, sadness, seriousness, tragedy, unhappiness |