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Grammar : Noun
Spell : boi-uh n-see, boo-yuh n-see
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbɔɪ ən si, ˈbu yən si



Definition of buoyancy

Origin :
  • 1713, from buoyant + -cy. Figurative sense (of spirits, etc.) is from 1819.
  • noun tendency to float
Example sentences :
  • It may have been the gradient of the hills, but somehow her gait had lost something of its buoyancy.
  • Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • He mingled a certain frowning impatience with the buoyancy of his smile.
  • Extract from : « The Market-Place » by Harold Frederic
  • The buoyancy of their irresponsible natures was reasserting itself.
  • Extract from : « The Golden Woman » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • But it was the light in their eyes, their grinning faces, the buoyancy of their gait that held him.
  • Extract from : « The Golden Woman » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • They were young still, and the buoyancy of the country they had adopted was in both of them.
  • Extract from : « The Greater Power » by Harold Bindloss
  • No buoyancy of temperament ever resisted that fatal climate.
  • Extract from : « Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. » by Charles James Lever
  • I suppose a man with a secret locked up in his breast loses his buoyancy.
  • Extract from : « Tales Of Hearsay » by Joseph Conrad
  • "Haud ma haun, guid-wife," his voice upborne by the buoyancy of death.
  • Extract from : « St. Cuthbert's » by Robert E. Knowles
  • Much of the buoyancy of her earlier dance was gone out of her.
  • Extract from : « The Frozen Pirate » by W. Clark Russell
  • He was very sprightly and elate, but I was in no sort of mood to share in his buoyancy.
  • Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service

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