Usually means: Perceived brightness of a color.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word lightness:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. lightness: Merriam-Webster
  2. lightness, lightness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lightness, lightness: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lightness: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lightness: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lightness, lightness: Wordnik
  7. lightness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. lightness: Wiktionary
  9. lightness: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lightness: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lightness: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Lightness, lightness: Dictionary.com
  13. Lightness (color), Lightness (philosophy): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Lightness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. lightness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. lightness: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  17. lightness: FreeDictionary.org
  18. lightness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. lightness: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. Lightness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  21. lightness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  22. lightness: Rhymezone
  23. Lightness: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lightness: Glossary of Binary Graphics
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. lightness: Graphic Design Dictionary
  4. lightness: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lightness: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lightness: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lightness: Visionary
  2. lightness: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lightness: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Visionary, for the Study of Vision (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (lightness)

noun:  (uncountable) the condition of being illuminated
noun:  (uncountable) the relative whiteness or transparency of a colour
noun:  (countable) The product of being illuminated.
noun:  The state of having little (or less) weight, or little force.
noun:  Agility of movement.
noun:  Freedom from worry.
noun:  Levity, frivolity; inconsistency.

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