buoyancy
noun
the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
buoyance
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a variation of
buoyancy.
Example Sentences
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"I've started over a lot," Don told Lane -- the man of many stories encouraging another to begin a new chapter -- but Lane didn't have Don's buoyance.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2012
And Wendell Willkie seemed to have lost the buoyance that had marked his whole campaign and that had brought the thousands to Elwood.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the next few years he was shipwrecked twice, being saved on one occasion by the buoyance of his mandolin.
From Time Magazine Archive
Outside the earthly atmosphere, interstellar gases are so rare that they would afford no traction for an airplane's propellor, no buoyance for wings.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fur of the coat seemed not to get wet through, and retained a certain amount of air that added to buoyance.
From Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters by Logan Marshall
