levitations
Defying gravity acts
Levitations is the plural of levitation—the act of rising or floating in the air without physical support.
Levitation appears in accounts of magic, religious ecstasy, and meditation: The magician's levitations delighted the crowd.
The word also describes magnetic or acoustic techniques that suspend objects: acoustic levitations of small droplets.
Surpassing usual limits
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- ascensionMovement to higher position
- meditationFocused attention practice
- yogicOf meditative practice
saints · mystics · ecstasy · rapture · divine · holiness · miracles · hovering
Object-throwing supernatural entities
- hauntingsSupernatural lingering presences
- possessionsThings one owns
- seancesRituals contacting the dead
- mediumsThose who contact spirits
supernatural · telekinesis · psychokinesis · unexplained · phenomena · spirits · ghosts · occult
Deceptive sensory experiences
- tricksDeceptive acts or techniques
- performancesStaged artistic presentations
- HoudiniFamous escape artist
- stageRaised performance platform
magicians · assistants · floating · suspensions · sleight · spectacle · audience · deception
Attracting iron or attention
- superconductorsZero-resistance current carriers
- acousticRelating to sound
- ultrasonicAbove audible frequency range
- diamagneticRepelled by magnetic fields
frogs · experiments · physics · laboratories · maglev · electromagnetic · forces · fields
transcendence
Surpassing usual limits
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- ascensionMovement to higher position
- meditationFocused attention practice
yogic · saints · mystics · ecstasy · rapture · divine · holiness · miracles · hovering · weightlessness
poltergeists
Object-throwing supernatural entities
- hauntingsSupernatural lingering presences
- possessionsThings one owns
- seancesRituals contacting the dead
mediums · supernatural · telekinesis · psychokinesis · unexplained · phenomena · spirits · ghosts · occult · exorcisms
illusions
Deceptive sensory experiences
- tricksDeceptive acts or techniques
- performancesStaged artistic presentations
- HoudiniFamous escape artist
stage · magicians · assistants · floating · suspensions · sleight · spectacle · audience · deception · props
magnetic
Attracting iron or attention
- superconductorsZero-resistance current carriers
- acousticRelating to sound
- ultrasonicAbove audible frequency range
diamagnetic · frogs · experiments · physics · laboratories · maglev · electromagnetic · forces · fields · suspension
levitationsheaviness
State of being weighty
weighing down · gravity · weight · sinking
levitationsgroundings
Punishments limiting freedom
landings · touchdowns · settlings · plantings · moorings
- magnetic levitationSuspension through electromagnetic force
- quantum levitationSuperconductor suspended by magnetism