buoyancy
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5.5
- noun
- /ˈbɔɪənsi/
:
optimismo
- Despite the challenges she faced, her buoyancy helped her stay optimistic and motivated.
So you can, you can negotiate different settings and situations and have that resilience, that buoyancy where you're like, I got this.
- So you can, you can negotiate different settings and situations and have that resilience, that buoyancy where you're like, I got this.
- Consider a yin, feminine, passive yielding expression of buoyancy right in the breath.
Examples
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At that first explosion, he still had the buoyancy of spirit to argue with this mystifying woman he loved.
Fiction book (1996) -
Begley shares a fair amount of this emotional buoyancy.
Academic text (1998) -
- With your buoyancy, rest assured.
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Agreed, she says, confident that enthusiasm and buoyancy can manage anything.
Fiction book (1990) -
My admiration for her buoyancy is now complete.
Academic text (1992) -
As we say farewell to our friend Sam Wheat, we are reminded of his kindness, his generosity, his buoyancy of spirit.
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Already he felt a strange craving for the exhilarating buoyancy he had experienced.
Fiction book (2002) -
Jobs come from the deployment of innovative ideas by start-ups that thrive in a dynamic climate of economic buoyancy.
Academic text (2010) -
By 1923, a period of economic buoyancy had begun that has since characterized the decade as the "roaring" twenties.
Academic text (2005) -
Karen Armstrong nicely characterized the beginning of the twentieth century in her book, The Case for God, by telling about the confident optimism and the cheerful buoyancy of the Second International Congress of Mathematicians, which convened in Paris in 1900.
Academic text (2014)
Synonyms
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1.0
A feeling of happiness that makes people less sad
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4.6
A strong, lively energy and brightness in people, places, or things
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3.2
A strong feeling of being very happy and excited
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1.3
A feeling that good things will happen
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1.0
A happy mood that makes you smile and helps others feel good
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1.6
A feeling of happiness and energy that makes others feel hopeful
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8.5
A feeling of cheerful, lively energy that people show
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6.0
Lively and cheerful in a bright, energetic way that can seem a little too playful
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3.2
A person who is cheerful, lively, and outgoing
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8.5
A cheerful, confident feeling about the future
A cheerful, lively person who stays optimistic and energetic
A friendly, happy way of acting that makes others feel better
A feeling of happiness and energy that makes someone feel positive
A strong, lasting belief that things will get better even in hard times
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
The point in a floating object where the water pushes up on the part under water
How Cheerful
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1
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4
1.0
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4.6
229
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210
3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Buoyancy also means a cheerful, lively spirit; think of a buoy that keeps a boat 'up' on the water, so a buoyant mood keeps a person 'up' and helps them recover after problems.