weightlessness

Variant of weightless

adjective

having little or no apparent weight; specif.,
  1. falling freely through a gravitational field, without apparent gravitational effects, as everything does inside an orbital spacecraft
  2. of or having zero gravity
  3. existing in a state of equilibrium within a fluid

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