noun
Freq #41031
Meanings
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noun
the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means
"I knew that you were a sleight-of-hand expert, Dick, but I did not know that levitation was one of your specialties," remarked Crane with mock gravity.
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Word family
Derived forms
levitationalnanolevitation
Related forms
buoyancy
Etymology
From levitate + -ion, from Latin levitas (“lightness”), patterned in English on gravitate.