lightness
/ˈlaɪtnəs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.97 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Well, darkness has a hunger that's insatiable and lightness has a call that's hard to hear."
- "The unique chassis design is largely the secret of the lightness of the locomotive."
- "In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road."
- "Seneca […] accounts it a filthy lightness in men, every day to lay new foundations of their life, but who doth otherwise?"
- "And if the sudden and unannounced arrival of Miss Melhuish at "The Turrets" contained any element of surprise for him, his habitual imperturbability enabled him to pass it off with disarming lightness."
Etymology
From Middle English lightnes, lightnesse, from Old English līhtnes, lȳhtnys (“enlightening, illumination”), from Proto-West Germanic *liuhtinassī; equivalent to light (“to make bright, illuminate”, verb) + -ness (suffix forming nouns). Cognate with Old High German liuhtnissi (“illumination, enlightening”).
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Inflected Forms
lightnesses (plural)
lightnesse (alternative)