different between elegance vs lightness
elegance
English
Etymology
From Middle French élégance, from Latin ?legantia (“exquisiteness; refinement, elegance”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??l.?.??ns/
- Hyphenation: el?e?gance
Noun
elegance (usually uncountable, plural elegances)
- Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners.
- Restraint and grace of style.
- The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.
- (countable, dated) A refinement or luxury.
Related terms
- elegant
Translations
Czech
Noun
elegance f
- elegance
Related terms
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lightness
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English lightnes, lightnesse, from Old English l?htnes; equivalent to light (“bright, luminous”, adjective) +? -ness (suffix forming nouns).
Noun
lightness (countable and uncountable, plural lightnesses)
- (uncountable) the condition of being illuminated
- (uncountable) the relative whiteness or transparency of a colour
- (countable) The product of being illuminated.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English lightnes, lightnesse,; equivalent to light (“not heavy”, adjective) +? -ness (suffix forming nouns).
Noun
lightness (uncountable)
- The state of having little weight, or little force.
- Agility of movement.
- Freedom from worry.
- Levity, frivolity; inconsistency.
- , New York 2001, p.75:
- Seneca […] accounts it a filthy lightness in men, every day to lay new foundations of their life, but who doth otherwise?
- , New York 2001, p.75:
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Anagrams
- nightless, slightens
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