| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class III. Words Relating to Matter | | Section I. Matter in General | | 4. Motion with Reference to Direction |
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| 320. Levity. |
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| NOUN: | LEVITY; lightness &c. adj.; imponderability, buoyancy, volatility; imponderables [tech.].
[COMPARISONS] feather, dust, mote, down, thistledown, flue, fluff, cobweb, gossamer, straw, cork, bubble; float, buoy; ether, air.
FERMENT, leaven, barm, yeast, zyme, enzyme, pepsin, diastase.
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| VERB: | BE LIGHT &c. adj.; float, swim, be buoyed up.
RENDER LIGHT &c. adj.; lighten.
FERMENT, work, raise, leaven.
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| ADJECTIVE: | LIGHT, subtile, subtle, airy; imponderous, imponderable; astatic, weightless, ethereal, sublimated; gossamery; suberose or suberous, subereous; uncompressed, volatile; buoyant, floating &c. v.; foamy, frothy; portable.
light as -a feather, - thistledown, - air.
FERMENTING, fermentative, zymogenic, zymologic or zymological, diastatic, yeasty.
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| QUOTATION: | Trifles light as air.—Othello |
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