Levitation vs Hovering - What's the difference?
levitation | hovering |
The raising of something, such as a body, without apparent physical cause, allegedly using the power of the mind
The suspension of something via technical means without any mechanical support, such as by magnetism
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The act of one who hovers.
* (Henry James)
As nouns the difference between levitation and hovering
is that levitation is levitation while hovering is the act of one who hovers.As a verb hovering is
.levitation
English
Noun
(en noun)- It was erected by the application of those universal laws and forces of nature which cause iron to float. By the same laws, gravity may be overcome or neutralized, and stone made to float in air. The Pyramid was thus built by levitation , abetted by song and chanting, much in the same manner in which the Druids of England set up their huge stones at a later period.
See also
* buoyancyExternal links
* * (Levitation)Anagrams
*hovering
English
(Hoverboard)Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Their visitor was an issue - at least to the imagination, and they arrived finally, under provocation, at intensities of flutter in which they felt themselves so compromised by his hoverings that they could only consider with relief the fact of nobody's knowing.