Synonyms:
irrepressibility, buoyancy
Meaning: irrepressible liveliness and good spirit; "I admired his buoyancy and persistent good humor"
Synonyms:
buoyancy
Meaning: the tendency to float in water or other liquid
Synonyms:
airiness, buoyancy
Meaning: the property of something weightless and insubstantial
Synonyms:
buoyancy, perkiness
Meaning: cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface
Usage examples
All his new-found buoyancy of spirits had suddenly left him.
Vaguely he wondered how people ever managed to commit suicide by drowning; it seemed to pass human power to resist that buoyancy which sustained one, to let go, let one's self go down.
This evening--sixteen hours at most had past by--she sat down, too full of sorrow to cry, but with a dull cold pain, which seemed to have pressed the youth and buoyancy out of her heart, never to return.
For the longer and much more important service across the Channel submarine rails may be laid down as in the cases mentioned, but in addition it will be necessary to provide for static stability by fixing a flounder-shaped pontoon just below the greatest depth of wave disturbance, and just sufficient in buoyancy to take the great bulk of the weight of the structure off the rails.