levitation

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means
noun movement upward in virtue of lightness
noun the act of raising (a body) from the ground by presumably spiritualistic means

From levitate + -ion, from Latin levitas (“lightness”), patterned in English on gravitate.

Floating in the air is called levitation. — Supermind, Randall Garrett
Floating in the air is called levitation. — Occasion ... for Disaster, Randall Garrett
But little Gwenna Williams had never heard of "levitation." — The Boy with Wings, Berta Ruck

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