floatiness
Dreamlike weightless quality
Floatiness is the quality of being floaty—light, airy, or drifting.
It describes physical sensations like the floatiness of a gauzy dress or the floatiness you feel when drowsy.
The word often suggests pleasant lightness: The medication gave her a strange floatiness.
It can also describe things lacking substance or weight: the floatiness of his arguments.
Thin and insubstantial
- gossamerFilmy, delicate material
- featherlikeResembling avian plumage
- billowySwelling in soft waves
- cloudlikeResembling aerial vapor
fluffy · puffy · wafting · drifting · hovering · vaporous · diaphanous · gauzy
Sensation of near-fainting
- dizzinessUnsteady, spinning sensation
- weightlessnessAbsence of apparent mass
- giddinessLightheaded, excitable state
- woozinessUnsteady, disoriented sensation
dreaminess · spaciness · dissociation · vertigo · headrush · faintness · haziness · grogginess
Fluid's upward resistance
- bobbingRhythmic vertical movement
- swimmingLocomotion through water
- treadingWalking on a surface
- driftingMoving without purpose
surfacing · waterwings · lifejacket · inflatable · raft · pontoon · cork · skimming
Seemingly not earthly
- ghostlyResembling a specter
- spectralGhostlike or wavelength-related
- phantasmalLike an apparition
- dreamlikeHazy and fantastical
surreal · transcendent · celestial · incorporeal · intangible · supernatural · unearthly · apparitional
wispy
Thin and insubstantial
- gossamerFilmy, delicate material
- featherlikeResembling avian plumage
- billowySwelling in soft waves
cloudlike · fluffy · puffy · wafting · drifting · hovering · vaporous · diaphanous · gauzy · filmy
lightheadedness
Sensation of near-fainting
- dizzinessUnsteady, spinning sensation
- weightlessnessAbsence of apparent mass
- giddinessLightheaded, excitable state
wooziness · dreaminess · spaciness · dissociation · vertigo · headrush · faintness · haziness · grogginess · disconnection
buoyancy
Fluid's upward resistance
drifting · surfacing · waterwings · lifejacket · inflatable · raft · pontoon · cork · skimming · gliding
otherworldly
Seemingly not earthly
- ghostlyResembling a specter
- spectralGhostlike or wavelength-related
- phantasmalLike an apparition
dreamlike · surreal · transcendent · celestial · incorporeal · intangible · supernatural · unearthly · apparitional · wraithlike
- giddinessdizziness, lightheadedness, silliness, giggles, laughter
- lightness qualitiesbrightness, glow, radiance, shine, luminosity
floatinessheaviness
State of being weighty
density · weightiness · solidity · massiveness · heft
float, floating, afloat, floated, floats, floater, floaty, floaties, flotation