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Buoyant vs Soaring - What's the difference?

buoyant | soaring |

As adjectives the difference between buoyant and soaring

is that buoyant is having buoyancy; able to float while soaring is assurgent, ascending.

As a verb soaring is

mounting on the wing; rising aloft; towering in thought or mind.

As a noun soaring is

the act of mounting on the wing, or of towering in thought or mind; intellectual flight.

buoyant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • having buoyancy; able to float
  • lighthearted and lively
    • I’m in a buoyant mood.

    Related terms

    * buoyancy * buoy * buoy up * buoying

    See also

    * Archimedes' principle

    soaring

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Mounting on the wing; rising aloft; towering in thought or mind.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of mounting on the wing, or of towering in thought or mind; intellectual flight.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • assurgent, ascending
  • * Soaring fuel prices make U.S. energy policy one of the hottest issues of the presidential campaign [http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/election/s_574218.html].