Goofiness
Lightness
Lightness noun - A lack of seriousness often at an improper time.
Usage example: the inappropriate lightness of the anchorman's tone while he was reading the story of the freak accident in which people had died
Goofiness and lightness are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Goofiness" instead a noun "Lightness".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- weakness and goofiness
- weakness and lightness
- facetiousness and goofiness
- facetiousness and lightness
- frivolity and goofiness
- frivolity and lightness
- nonsense and goofiness
- nonsense and lightness
- folly and goofiness
- folly and lightness
- silliness and goofiness
- silliness and lightness
- flightiness and goofiness
- flightiness and lightness
Both words in one sentence
- The Budiansky stories following were instead characterised by lightness and goofiness, as they became increasingly more ridiculous and humorous, featuring space kids, robot wrestling, and car washes of doom, and it is these more Slice of Life stories that tend to be associated with him.
Source: Reverse Cerebus Syndrome
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