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Lightness vs Slightness - What's the difference?

lightness | 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 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?

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    * English words suffixed with -ness

    slightness

    English

    Noun

    (slightnesses)
  • The property of being slight, smallness, petiteness
  • :Poor nutrition explained his slightness .