Lightness vs Slightness - What's the difference?
lightness | slightness |
(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:
The property of being slight, smallness, petiteness
:Poor nutrition explained his slightness .
As nouns the difference between lightness and slightness
is that lightness is (uncountable) the condition of being illuminated or lightness can be the state of having little weight, or little force while slightness is the property of being slight, smallness, petiteness.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?