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Meanings of lightheartedness in English

The cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you.

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Examples for "insouciance"
Examples for "insouciance"
1
Dr. Stanton walked with a certain insouciance, or maybe simply absolute confidence.
A fierce radiance: a novel
2
But he is also capable, at any time, of great sporting insouciance.
The Guardian
3
What we were left with was an overwhelming sense of glacial insouciance.
The Guardian
4
The ballet requires formidable technique, enormous energy and a wisecracking youthful insouciance.
The new yorker
5
It had been easy to feign insouciance in the brightly lit hospital.
Career of Evil
1
Carterette, with all her seeming lightsomeness, had sense and self- possession.
The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Volume 4
2
They left the theater very slowly, with all the lightsomeness and gladness of heart gone.
The Rebel of the School
3
There was lightsomeness and gladness in every breath.
Micah Clarke / His Statement as made to his three grandchildren ...
4
The footsteps above were distinguishable, though it was manifest that they moved with lightsomeness and circumspection.
Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
5
George went at his task with much too much lightsomeness of spirit and disrespect for the situation.
Chapters from My Autobiography
1
My carefreeness was made possible by her carefulness, and there was the line, the distinction between my girlhood and her motherhood.
Ebony
Usage of lightheartedness in English
1
The lightheartedness is signalled within a hundred words of the opening.
The Irish Times
2
A little more lightheartedness would render me the happiest being under the sun.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
3
For lightheartedness and good fellowship our Australian geologists should be given first prize.
South with Scott
4
He let himself be irritated by the lightheartedness of Forbes.
Their Pilgrimage
5
I wondered immediately as suspicion chased away the lightheartedness that the flamingos had inspired.
Too close to home
6
Funny, this mood was as appealing as the lightheartedness she'd sensed in him earlier.
The manning grooms: bride on the loose\same time, next year
7
She embodies sobriety and exuberance, rigorous discipline and lightheartedness, all in a 159-centimetre frame.
Reuters
8
I felt the lightheartedness seep from the conversation as soon as those words were spoken.
Halo
9
But Kent does not show much lightheartedness these days.
Summers at Castle Auburn
10
The lightheartedness of the book is also a joy.
A farewell to legs: an aaron tucker mystery
11
The lightheartedness of a former time had completely faded.
Men, Women, and Boats
12
This meeting maintained us in our previous mental condition; but it lessened our gay lightheartedness.
A Drama on the Seashore
13
And seeing that her lightheartedness was pleasant to them, she teased and joked with them.
The Princess Pocahontas
14
The constant shifting between comedy and drama and lightheartedness and seriousness doesn't always mix well.
Reuters
15
And I had believed Carpenter Nikolai incapable of lightheartedness!
Look Back on Happiness
16
Notwithstanding the assumed lightheartedness of the boys, they realized that they were in a serious situation.
The Call of the Beaver Patrol; Or, A Break in the Glacier
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Lightheartedness through the time