Antonyms of noun gravitation

1 of 3 senses of gravitation

Sense 2
gravitation -- (movement downward resulting from gravitational attraction; "irrigation by gravitation rather than by pumps")
       Antonym of levitation (Sense 2)
      => levitation -- (movement upward in virtue of lightness)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun gravitation

3 senses of gravitation

Sense 1
gravity, gravitation, gravitational attraction, gravitational force -- ((physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface; "the more remote the body the less the gravity"; "the gravitation between two bodies is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them"; "gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love"--Albert Einstein)
       => attraction, attractive force -- (the force by which one object attracts another)

Sense 2
gravitation -- (movement downward resulting from gravitational attraction; "irrigation by gravitation rather than by pumps")
       => change of location, travel -- (a movement through space that changes the location of something)

Sense 3
gravitation -- (a figurative movement toward some attraction; "the gravitation of the middle class to the suburbs")
       => drift, trend, movement -- (a general tendency to change (as of opinion); "not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"; "a broad movement of the electorate to the right")

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