as in lightness
the state or quality of having little weight
the relative weightlessness of the suitcase surprised me
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Recent Examples of weightlessness
Passengers get to experience a few minutes of weightlessness and see Earth against the blackness of space.
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Mike Wall, Space.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Already a skin diver, Clarke had wanted to experience something like weightlessness, Rozwadowski writes.
—Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 26 Sep. 2025
To evaluate alternatives, cardiologists teamed up with the French space agency, the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), to conduct tests aboard an Airbus A310 aircraft modified to fly in parabolic arcs to simulate weightlessness for brief periods.
—New Atlas, 6 Sep. 2025
Armani makeup, and especially its foundations, are known for their transparent formulas with a feeling of weightlessness and softness.
—Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Mike Wall, Space.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Already a skin diver, Clarke had wanted to experience something like weightlessness, Rozwadowski writes.
—Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 26 Sep. 2025
To evaluate alternatives, cardiologists teamed up with the French space agency, the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), to conduct tests aboard an Airbus A310 aircraft modified to fly in parabolic arcs to simulate weightlessness for brief periods.
—New Atlas, 6 Sep. 2025
Armani makeup, and especially its foundations, are known for their transparent formulas with a feeling of weightlessness and softness.
—Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for weightlessness
lightness
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There were a lot of bold colors in the collections, transparency and lightness.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
29 Sep. 2025
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The building has kept some of this lightness of feeling all these years later, smallish and airy, its multiple exits and entrances providing the possibility of spontaneity.—
Katie da Cunha Lewin
September 26,
Literary Hub,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Weightlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weightlessness. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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