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levitation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun levitation has 3 senses
- levitation(n = noun.phenomenon) Array - the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means; Array is a kind of phenomenon
- levitation(n = noun.event) Array - movement upward in virtue of lightness; Array is a kind of change of location, travel
- levitation(n = noun.act) Array - the act of raising (a body) from the ground by presumably spiritualistic means; Array is a kind of ascending, ascension, ascent, rise
Derived forms verb levitate2, verb levitate1
Antonym: gravitation
CIDE DICTIONARY
levitation, n. [L. levis light in weight.].
- Lightness; buoyancy; act of making light. Paley. [1913 Webster]
- The act or process of making buoyant. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
levitation
Ouija, airiness, anabasis, ascension, ascent, automatic writing, automatism, bubbliness, buoyancy, clamber, climb, climbing, daintiness, delicacy, downiness, elevation, escalade, ethereality, floatability, fluffiness, foaminess, fountain, frothiness, gentleness, gossameriness, gush, gyring up, increase, jet, jump, lack of weight, leap, levity, lightness, materialization, mount, mounting, planchette, poltergeist, poltergeistism, psychography, psychorrhagy, rise, rising, rocketing up, saltation, shooting up, soaring, softness, spirit manifestation, spirit rapping, spout, spring, spurt, surge, table tipping, takeoff, taking off, telekinesis, teleportation, telesthesia, tenderness, trance speaking, unheaviness, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphill, upleap, uplift, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, vault, volatility, weightlessness, yeastiness, zooming
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