levitation

levitation
Synonyms and related words:
Ouija, airiness, anabasis, ascension, ascent, automatic writing, automatism, bubbliness, buoyancy, clamber, climb, climbing, daintiness, delicacy, downiness, elevation, escalade, ethereality, floatability, fluffiness, foaminess, fountain, frothiness, gentleness, gossameriness, gush, gyring up, increase, jet, jump, lack of weight, leap, levity, lightness, materialization, mount, mounting, planchette, poltergeist, poltergeistism, psychography, psychorrhagy, rise, rising, rocketing up, saltation, shooting up, soaring, softness, spirit manifestation, spirit rapping, spout, spring, spurt, surge, table tipping, takeoff, taking off, telekinesis, teleportation, telesthesia, tenderness, trance speaking, unheaviness, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphill, upleap, uplift, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, vault, volatility, weightlessness, yeastiness, zooming

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