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
The Beautyrest adjustable bed has pre-empted your modification needs in many ways, from head-and foot-rest incline options to a zero-gravity preset that provides a feeling of weightlessness.
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Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 10 Oct. 2025
Passengers experience a few minutes of weightlessness and get to see Earth against the blackness of space.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 8 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
Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 10 Oct. 2025
Passengers experience a few minutes of weightlessness and get to see Earth against the blackness of space.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 8 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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At last, a bit of fizz and lightness, a sliver of dawn at the end of a velvet night.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
12 Oct. 2025
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Steel was used for the house’s structure, for its recyclability but also for lightness.—
Lily Templeton,
Footwear News,
11 Oct. 2025
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“Weightlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weightlessness. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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