Lahutā (Pali) is a Buddhist term translated as "lightness", and it is the basis for the following pair of mental factors within the Theravada Abhidharma teachings: These two mental factors have the characteristic of the subsiding of heaviness (garubhāva) in the mental body and consciousness, respectively.
[1] Bhikkhu Bodhi states:[1] Nina van Gorkom explains:[2] The Atthasālinī (I, Book I, Part IV, Chapter I, 30) states:[3]