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WEIGHTLESSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does weightlessness mean? 

WEIGHTLESSNESS (noun)
  The noun WEIGHTLESSNESS has 1 sense:

1. the property of being comparatively small in weightplay

  Familiarity information: WEIGHTLESSNESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WEIGHTLESSNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being comparatively small in weight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

lightness; weightlessness

Context example:

the lightness of balsa wood

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)


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