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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
- 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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