LIGHTNESS

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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

2.
n.

Illumination, or degree of illumination; as, the lightness of a room. Chaucer.

3.
n.

Absence of depth or of duskiness in color; as, the lightness of a tint; lightness of complexion.


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