What does "lightness" mean?
Lightness: Illumination, or degree of illumination; as, the lightness of a room. Chaucer.
Additional senses
- 2.Absence of depth or of duskiness in color; as, the lightness of a tint; lightness of complexion.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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