Dictionary Entry
buoyancy
buoyancy is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 20 · 7 senses
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- 1noun
The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water.
- 2noun
The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced.
- 3noun
Cheerfulness; vivacity; liveliness; sprightliness; -- the opposite of heaviness; as, buoyancy of spirits.
- 4noun
irrepressible liveliness and good spirit
"I admired his buoyancy and persistent good humor"
- 5noun
the tendency to float in water or other liquid
- 6noun
the property of something weightless and insubstantial
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- 7noun
cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface
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