Lightness is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LIGHTNESS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being light
• the state of having a sufficient or considerable amount of natural light
• the quality of being pale in colour
• the quality of having little weight
• lack of density, thickness, or richness
• lack of pressure, force, or heaviness of movement
• the quality of being gentle or delicate in style
• the quality of requiring little mental effort; lack of depth or seriousness
• the quality of being cheerful
• the quality of being easily borne or done
• quality of being light
• The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; nimbleness; delicacy; grace.
• Illumination, or degree of illumination; as, the lightness of a room.
• Absence of depth or of duskiness in color; as, the lightness of a tint; lightness of complexion.
• a feeling of joy and pride
• the property of being comparatively small in weight
• the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble
• having a light color
• the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures
• the trait of being lighthearted and frivolous
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the quality or state of being illuminate; illumination

Words related to LIGHTNESS

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Words that contain LIGHTNESS

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How to use LIGHTNESS in a sentence

• What amazed me was a strange sense of lightness that made me feel I could rise up and float away if I wanted to.
• Taxation and public debt, the burdens which bear so heavily upon all other countries, have pressed with comparative lightness upon us.
• Thus they go from one side to the other, with the lightness of a feather, or, burrowing in the sand, send forth a phosphoric glow.
• The lightness of the little craft essentially aided her.
• But, though such a spirit of lightness prevailed, there was not a moment of loafing.
• Finally, the recess behind the altar adds lightness and space to what would otherwise have been a box.
• The lightness and gayety that had marked the three from the moment of leaving home had gone.
• She loved it for its grace and lightness, and as for the rose, it was the one she had made Zorzi give back to her yesterday.
• Being in the extreme rear, the lightness of the breeze had so far delayed them.
• Lightness of wit and the graces of conversation are a gift of nature, or the fruit of education begun in the cradle.
• We love and we hate, with a lightness that is held civilised, and it never stirs.
• You see if a bit of the world attaches to our garments it makes them heavy and weighs them down, and it is a long time ere they regain their lightness.
• And he was conscious of a sudden lightness of spirit, as of an exile nearing home.
• Hardness and softness, heat and cold, weight and lightness, are relative, not absolute conditions.
• His dancing was very clever indeed, and the animals were all highly pleased with his grace and lightness.
• Like many nurses, she had a superficial lightness of manner, behind which she often concealed the wonderful sympathy with and understanding for suffering which was hers.
• Lightness is not the only requisite for bread, and should be secured with as little deterioration of the flour as possible.
• Here, surely the fear would die out of her soul, the eyes would lose their shadows, the feet regain the lightness of their step.
• Lightness and grace are not incompatible with vigor, but are its crowning illustration.
• The lightness of cakes depends upon the ingredients being beaten well together.
• He should attend to the swing of the club, the lightness of the song, the cut the saw is making, the words he is writing, instead of the muscle movements involved.
• The extreme lightness of the modern bonnet is in itself a great recommendation.
• Her outlook was so far above mine that I always felt not rebuked, but ashamed of my superficial lightness of manner.
• He found these gave both weight and crisp lightness to the tones.
• He assumed a grace and a lightness that might well become a minstrel of no ordinary degree.
• At first his feet felt like feathers for lightness, and it seemed as if he could have gone on for ever.

Similar words containing LIGHTNES without suffix s

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