Definition of Lightness

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Lightness

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.

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Lightness Quotations

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
Benjamin Disraeli

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.
William James

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.
Julia Roberts

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
Arthur Erickson

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Joan Lunden

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.
Martin Puryear

Lightness Translations

lightness in French is aisance
lightness in German is Leichtigkeit
lightness in Latin is levitas
lightness in Spanish is facilidad, levedad

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