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
His research for the project included reading up on the effects of long-term weightlessness and sensory deprivation, as well as dipping into old Japanese legends and international fairytales.
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 18 May 2026
Full Virgin Galactic missions have lasted more than an hour, during which passengers on Unity have been treated to views of Earth and the thin blue line of our planet's atmosphere while experiencing a few minutes of weightlessness.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 6 May 2026
Trump is shrugging them off, entering a state of weightlessness where all thought of consequences and all concern for mundane irritants like inflation and affordability are left behind.
—Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2026
Passengers experience a few minutes of weightlessness before gliding back to Earth.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2026
His playing also contributes to the airiness of the album, the sense of weightlessness that has more in common with SUSS or Chuck Johnson than anybody on country radio.
—Stephen M. Deusner, Pitchfork, 7 Apr. 2026
Such toys are traditionally used to indicate when a crew becomes weightlessness on reaching orbit.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
In a film that nimbly walks the tightrope between lightheartedness and weightlessness, Jerry and Mabel’s antagonistic relationship ends up proving the unexpected core of the story.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 2 Mar. 2026
Leanne Fan, 18, a 12th-grader at Westview High School, built a device that uses rotation to simulate microgravity — the near-weightlessness that astronauts experience in space — in order to study how live organisms grow in space.
—Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
Jeff Spry, Space.com, 18 May 2026
Full Virgin Galactic missions have lasted more than an hour, during which passengers on Unity have been treated to views of Earth and the thin blue line of our planet's atmosphere while experiencing a few minutes of weightlessness.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 6 May 2026
Trump is shrugging them off, entering a state of weightlessness where all thought of consequences and all concern for mundane irritants like inflation and affordability are left behind.
—Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2026
Passengers experience a few minutes of weightlessness before gliding back to Earth.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2026
His playing also contributes to the airiness of the album, the sense of weightlessness that has more in common with SUSS or Chuck Johnson than anybody on country radio.
—Stephen M. Deusner, Pitchfork, 7 Apr. 2026
Such toys are traditionally used to indicate when a crew becomes weightlessness on reaching orbit.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
In a film that nimbly walks the tightrope between lightheartedness and weightlessness, Jerry and Mabel’s antagonistic relationship ends up proving the unexpected core of the story.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 2 Mar. 2026
Leanne Fan, 18, a 12th-grader at Westview High School, built a device that uses rotation to simulate microgravity — the near-weightlessness that astronauts experience in space — in order to study how live organisms grow in space.
—Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for weightlessness
lightness
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Known for creating minimal spaces using futuristic textures such as aluminum, the store continues Yoshioka’s obsession with creating a sense of lightness within the retail environment.—
Denni Hu,
Footwear News,
18 May 2026
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Nguyen tenderly captures the lightness, freedom and exhilaration of being in water and reigning over the waves, rules of gravity be damned.—
Tomris Laffly,
Variety,
13 May 2026
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“Weightlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weightlessness. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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