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lightheartedness
[lahyt-hahr-tid] 
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lightheartedness
[lahyt-hahr-tid]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | high spirits |
| Synonyms: | blitheness, buoyancy, ebullience, euphoria, jauntiness, jeu d'esprit, nonchalance, sprightliness |
| Antonyms: | gloom, heavyheartedness |
| 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: | gaiety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happiness, celebration |
| Synonyms: | animation, blitheness, brightness, brilliance, cheer, color, colorfulness, conviviality, effervescence, elation, entertainment, exhilaration, festivity, frolic, fun, geniality, gladness, glee, glitter, good humor, grins, high spirits, hilarity, joie de vivre, jollity, joviality, joyousness, lightheartedness, liveliness, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, pleasantness, radiance, revel, reveling, revelry, shindig*, showiness, sparkle, sport, sprightliness, vivacity, whoopee, wingding |
| Antonyms: | sadness, solemnity, unhappiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | happiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | high spirits, satisfaction |
| Synonyms: | beatitude, blessedness, bliss, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, content, contentment, delectation, delight, delirium, ecstasy, elation, enchantment, enjoyment, euphoria, exhilaration, exuberance, felicity, gaiety, geniality, gladness, glee, good cheer, good humor, good spirits, hilarity, hopefulness, joviality, joy, jubilation, laughter, lightheartedness, merriment, mirth, optimism, paradise, peace of mind, playfulness, pleasure, prosperity, rejoicing, sanctity, seventh heaven, vivacity, well-being |
| Antonyms: | depression, gloom, misery, pain, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness, woe |
| Main Entry: | joie de vivre |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cheerfulness |
| Synonyms: | delight, enjoyment, gaiety, gladsomeness, happiness, high spirits, joviality, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, lightheartedness, love of life, merriment, molliness, spiritedness |
| Antonyms: | depression, sobriety |
| Main Entry: | levity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | funniness, silliness |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, amusement, buoyancy, facetiousness, festivity, fickleness, flightiness, flippancy, folly, foolishness, frivolity, giddiness, happiness, high spirits, hilarity, jocularity, laughs, lightheartedness, mirth, picnic, pleasantry, repartee, trifling, triviality, volatility, wit |
| Antonyms: | gravity, seriousness |
| Main Entry: | mirth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great joy |
| Synonyms: | amusement, cheer, cheerfulness, convulsions, entertainment, festivity, frivolity, frolic, fun, gaiety, gladness, glee, happiness, hilarity, hysteria, hysterics, jocularity, jocundity, jollity, joviality, joyousness, kicks, laughs, laughter, levity, lightheartedness, merriment, merrymaking, pleasure, rejoicing, revelry, sport, whoopee |
| Antonyms: | blues, depression, distress, sadness, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | cheerfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happiness |
| Synonyms: | animation, buoyancy, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, comfort, delight, encouragement, exuberance, gaiety, geniality, gladness, glee, good cheer, hilarity, hopefulness, jauntiness, jocundity, joy, joyousness, light-heartedness, liveliness, merriment, mirth, optimism, solace |
| Antonyms: | cheerlessness, gloom, sadness |
| Main Entry: | abandonment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abandon |
| Synonyms: | carelessness, lightheartedness, recklessness, unrestraint, wantonness, wildness |
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