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Lightness

The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; nimbleness; delicacy; grace.

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Airiness 76% connected

The state or quality of being airy; openness or exposure to the air; as, the airiness of a country seat.

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Aura 76% connected

Any subtile, invisible emanation, effluvium, or exhalation from a substance, as the aroma of flowers, the odor of the blood, a supposed fertilizing e…

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Aureole 76% connected

A celestial crown or accidental glory added to the bliss of heaven, as a reward to those (as virgins, martyrs, preachers, etc.) who have overcome the…

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Brightness 76% connected

The quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness.

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Buoyancy 76% connected

The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compar…

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Gloriole 76% connected

An aureole.

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Glory 76% connected

Praise, honor, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; honorable fame; renown.

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Halo 76% connected

A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through crystals of ice…

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Nimbus 76% connected

A circle, or disk, or any indication of radiant light around the heads of divinities, saints, and sovereigns, upon medals, pictures, etc.; a halo. Se…

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Sunniness 76% connected

The quality or state of being sunny.

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Giddiness 76% connected

The quality or state of being giddy.

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Joy 76% connected

The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the l…

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Silliness 76% connected

The quality or state of being silly.

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Value 76% connected

The property or aggregate properties of a thing by which it is rendered useful or desirable, or the degree of such property or sum of properties; wor…

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Weight 76% connected

The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially wh…

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Light 74% connected

That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.

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Light 74% connected

That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.

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Dark 66% connected

Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color…

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Dark 66% connected

Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color…

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Light 66% connected

That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.

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Light 66% connected

That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.

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Synonym 5

Agility 92% connected

The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, strength and agility of…

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Elation 92% connected

A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity.

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Legerity 92% connected

Lightness; nimbleness.

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Light 92% connected

That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Nimbleness 92% connected

The quality of being nimble; lightness and quickness in motion; agility; swiftness.

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Antonym 4

Darkness 94% connected

The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom.

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Darkness 94% connected

The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom.

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Heaviness 94% connected

The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.

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Heaviness 94% connected

The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.

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