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LEVITATION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of raising (a body) from the ground by presumably spiritualistic means

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("levitation" is a kind of...):

ascending; ascension; ascent; rise (the act of changing location in an upward direction)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Movement upward in virtue of lightness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("levitation" is a kind of...):

change of location; travel (a movement through space that changes the location of something)

Antonym:

gravitation (movement downward resulting from gravitational attraction)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("levitation" is a kind of...):

phenomenon (any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning)

Derivation:

levitate (be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity)

levitate (cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity)

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