lightheartedness

noun

Etymology: From lighthearted (adjective) (any sense) + -ness (suffix forming nouns).

1. The state of being lighthearted, joyous, cheerful, without a care.
2. An amusement or item of a pleasant but inconsequential nature.

   “I focus on communal descriptive problems—what I call American race talk dilemmas—rather than on all the lightheartednesses and small triumphs of daily life at Columbus.”