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WEIGHTLESSNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of being comparatively small in weight
Example:
the lightness of balsa wood
Synonyms:
lightness; weightlessness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("weightlessness" is a kind of...):
weight (the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "weightlessness"):
airiness; buoyancy (the property of something weightless and insubstantial)
Derivation:
weightless (having little or no weight or apparent gravitational pull; light)
