lightheartedness
111joie de vivre — [n] cheerfulness delight, enjoyment, gaiety, gladsomeness, happiness, high spirits, joviality, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, lightheartedness, love of life, merriment, molliness, spiritedness; concepts 410,411 Ant. depression, sobriety …
112levity — [n] funniness, silliness absurdity, amusement, buoyancy, facetiousness, festivity, fickleness, flightiness, flippancy, folly, foolishness, frivolity, giddiness, happiness, high spirits, hilarity, jocularity, laughs, lightheartedness, mirth,… …
113mirth — [n] great joy amusement, cheer, cheerfulness, convulsions, entertainment, festivity, frivolity, frolic, fun, gaiety, gladness, glee, happiness, hilarity, hysteria, hysterics, jocularity, jocundity, jollity, joviality, joyousness, kicks*, laughs,… …
114agile — [aj′əl, aj′īl΄] adj. [Fr < L agilis < agere, ACT1] 1. quick and easy of movement; deft and active 2. keen and lively [an agile wit] agilely adv. agility [ə jil′ə tē] n. SYN. AGILE and NI …
115airiness — [er′ē nis] n. 1. the quality or state of being airy, or full of fresh air 2. lightheartedness; jauntiness …
116lighthearted — [līt′härt΄id] adj. free from care; cheerful lightheartedly adv. lightheartedness n …
117lively — [līv′lē] adj. livelier, liveliest [ME liflich < OE liflic: see LIFE & LY1] 1. full of life; active; vigorous 2. full of spirit; exciting; animated [a lively debate] 3. showing or inspiring liveliness; cheerful …
118tra-la — [trä lä′] interj. used conventionally in singing, esp. as a short refrain, to express gaiety or lightheartedness: often tra la la …
119blitheness — noun a feeling of spontaneous good spirits his cheerfulness made everyone feel better • Syn: ↑cheerfulness • Ant: ↑cheerlessness (for: ↑cheerfulness) • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …
120blithesome — adjective carefree and happy and lighthearted was loved for her blithe spirit a merry blithesome nature her lighthearted nature trilling songs with a lightsome heart • Syn: ↑blithe, ↑lighthearted, ↑lightsome, ↑ …
