Flightiness vs Lightness - What's the difference?
flightiness | lightness | Synonyms |
(uncountable) the condition of being illuminated
(uncountable) the relative whiteness or transparency of a colour
(countable) The product of being illuminated.
The state of having little weight, or little force.
Agility of movement.
Freedom from worry.
* {{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, page=266, title=
, passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.}}
Levity, frivolity; inconsistency.
*, New York 2001, p.75:
Flightiness is a synonym of lightness.
As nouns the difference between flightiness and lightness
is that flightiness is the quality of being flighty while lightness is (uncountable) the condition of being illuminated or lightness can be the state of having little weight, or little force.lightness
English
Etymology 1
from light, the nounNoun
Etymology 2
From (light), the adjective.Noun
(-)Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion
- Senecaaccounts it a filthy lightness in men, every day to lay new foundations of their life, but who doth otherwise?