"light-heartedness" meaning in English

See light-heartedness in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: light-heartednesses [plural]
Etymology: light-hearted + -ness Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|light-hearted|ness}} light-hearted + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} light-heartedness (countable and uncountable, plural light-heartednesses)
  1. Alternative form of lightheartedness Tags: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Alternative form of: lightheartedness
    Sense id: en-light-heartedness-en-noun-3g520cVx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for light-heartedness meaning in English (1.6kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "light-hearted",
        "3": "ness"
      },
      "expansion": "light-hearted + -ness",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "light-hearted + -ness",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "light-heartednesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "light-heartedness (countable and uncountable, plural light-heartednesses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "lightheartedness"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ness",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1993, Julie D. Prandi, \"Dare to be Happy!\": A Study of Goethe's Ethics, page 187",
          "text": "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.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Katharine McMahon, Season of Light",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of lightheartedness"
      ],
      "id": "en-light-heartedness-en-noun-3g520cVx",
      "links": [
        [
          "lightheartedness",
          "lightheartedness#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "light-heartedness"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "light-hearted",
        "3": "ness"
      },
      "expansion": "light-hearted + -ness",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "light-hearted + -ness",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "light-heartednesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "light-heartedness (countable and uncountable, plural light-heartednesses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "lightheartedness"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -ness",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1993, Julie D. Prandi, \"Dare to be Happy!\": A Study of Goethe's Ethics, page 187",
          "text": "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.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Katharine McMahon, Season of Light",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of lightheartedness"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lightheartedness",
          "lightheartedness#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "light-heartedness"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.