WEIGHTLESSNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)