| Main Entry: | buoyancy/buoyance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lightness in weight |
Synonyms: |
airiness, ethereality, floatability, levity, weightlessness |
Antonyms: |
heaviness |
| Main Entry: | buoyancy/buoyance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lightness in spirit |
Synonyms: |
animation, bounce, cheerfulness, cheeriness, ebullience, effervescence, exuberance, gaiety, good feeling, good humor, happiness, high spirits, jollity, liveliness, pep, spiritedness, sunniness, vim and vigor, zing, zip |
Antonyms: |
blues, depression, heaviness |
| Main Entry: | buoyancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tendency to float |
Synonyms: |
elasticity, resilience |
Antonyms: |
depression |
| Main Entry: | animation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liveliness; activity |
Synonyms: |
action, ardor, bounce, brio, briskness, buoyancy, dash, dynamism, ebullience, elation, energy, enthusiasm, esprit, excitement, exhilaration, fervor, gaiety, high spirits, life, oomph, passion, pep, sparkle, spirit, sprightliness, verve, vibrancy, vigor, vim, vitality, vivacity, zap, zeal, zest, zing, zip, élan |
Antonyms: |
discouragement, dullness, inactivity |
| Main Entry: | cheer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happiness |
Synonyms: |
animation, buoyancy, cheerfulness, cheeriness, comfort, delight, encouragement, exuberance, gaiety, geniality, gladness, glee, good cheer, hilarity, hopefulness, jauntiness, jocundity, joy, joyousness, lightheartedness, liveliness, merriment, merry-making, mirth, optimism, solace |
Antonyms: |
depression, gloom, gravity, melancholy, sadness, seriousness, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | ebullience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm |
Synonyms: |
agitation, animation, buoyancy, effervescence, effusiveness, elation, excitement, exhilaration, exuberance, exuberancy, ferment, gaiety, high spirits, high-spiritedness, liveliness, vitality, vivaciousness, vivacity, zest |
Antonyms: |
apathy, disinterest |
| Main Entry: | effervescence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm, vivacity |
Synonyms: |
animation, buoyancy, ebullience, excitedness, excitement, exhilaration, exuberance, exuberancy, gaiety, happiness, high spirits, joy, liveliness, vim, vitality, volatility, zing |
Antonyms: |
dullness, flatness |
| Main Entry: | elation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme happiness |
Synonyms: |
bliss, buoyancy, buzz, charge, cloud nine, delight, ecstasy, enthusiasm, euphoria, exaltation, excitement, exhilaration, exultation, glee, high, high spirits, intoxication, jollies, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, kick*, kicks, rapture, stars in one's eyes, transport, triumph, up*, upper |
Antonyms: |
depression, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | exuberance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | energy, enthusiasm |
Synonyms: |
abandon, animation, ardor, bounce, buoyancy, cheerfulness, eagerness, ebullience, effervescence, excitement, exhilaration, fervor, friskiness, gayness, get up and go, high spirits, juice*, life, liveliness, pep, pepper, spirit, sprightliness, vigor, vitality, zap, zest*, zip |
Antonyms: |
discouragement, lifelessness |
| Main Entry: | hope |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | longing; dream |
Synonyms: |
Utopia, achievement, ambition, anticipation, aspiration, assumption, belief, bright side, buoyancy, castles in air, concern, confidence, daydream, dependence, desire, endurance, expectancy, expectation, faith, fancy, fool's paradise, fortune, gain, goal, greedy glutton, hopefulness, light at end of tunnel, optimism, pipe dream, promise, promised land, prospect, reliance, reverie, reward, rosiness, sanguineness, security, stock, thing with feathers, wish |
Antonyms: |
despair, disbelief, discouragement, hopelessness, pessimism |