Lightness vs Eccentricity - What's the difference?
lightness | eccentricity | Related terms |
(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.
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, 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.
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The quality of being eccentric; any eccentric behaviour.
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(mathematics) The ratio, constant for any particular conic section, of the distance of a point from the focus to its distance from the directrix.
Lightness is a related term of eccentricity.
As nouns the difference between lightness and eccentricity
is that lightness is (uncountable) the condition of being illuminated or lightness can be the state of having little weight, or little force while eccentricity is the quality of being eccentric; any eccentric behaviour.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?