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Softness vs Lightness - What's the difference?

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Softness is a related term of lightness.


As nouns the difference between softness and lightness

is that softness is the quality of being soft while lightness is (uncountable) the condition of being illuminated or lightness can be the state of having little weight, or little force.

softness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The quality of being soft.

    • Antonyms

    * hardness

    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