lightheartedness

Questions about lightheartedness

What does lightheartedness mean?

lightheartedness means "the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you".

How many syllables are in lightheartedness?

lightheartedness has 5 syllables and divides as ligh-the-ar-ted-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for lightheartedness?

Close synonyms include carefreeness, insouciance, lightsomeness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lightheartedness a common word?

lightheartedness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.