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Lightness vs Triviality - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between lightness and triviality

is that lightness is the condition of being illuminated while triviality is the quality of being trivial or unimportant.

lightness

English

Etymology 1

from light, the noun

Noun

  • (uncountable) the condition of being illuminated
  • (uncountable) the relative whiteness or transparency of a colour
  • (countable) The product of being illuminated.

    • Etymology 2

    From (light), the adjective.

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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= Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion
    • , 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:
    • Senecaaccounts it a filthy lightness in men, every day to lay new foundations of their life, but who doth otherwise?

    Anagrams

    * English words suffixed with -ness

    triviality

    English

    Noun

    (trivialities)
  • The quality of being trivial or unimportant.
  • Something which is trivial or unimportant.
  • * 1908:
    • I propose to devote the remainder of mine to it, and can only regret the wasted years that lie behind me, squandered in trivialities .