different between exquisiteness vs lightness

English

Etymology

exquisite +? -ness

Noun

exquisiteness (usually uncountable, plural exquisitenesses)

1. The degree or property of being exquisite.

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)

1. (uncountable) the condition of being illuminated
2. (uncountable) the relative whiteness or transparency of a colour
3. (countable) The product of being illuminated.

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Etymology 2

From Middle English lightnes, lightnesse,; equivalent to light (“not heavy”, adjective) +? -ness (suffix forming nouns).

Noun

lightness (uncountable)

1. The state of having little weight, or little force.
2. Agility of movement.
3. Freedom from worry.
4. 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?

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Anagrams

• nightless, slightens