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the refusal to sink, dressed up as a personality trait.
means Able to float, or — of a mood or spirit — light, cheerful, and resilient enough to bounce back.
from From French bouyant, the present participle of bouer, 'to float,' which traces back through older Romance roots to a Latin source possibly linked to buoys and floating markers. It first bobbed into English as a strictly nautical word — describing whatever wouldn't sink — before the figurative sense of a person's irrepressibly rising spirits floated to the surface alongside it.
- archimedes' law
- upthrust equals the weight of fluid displaced
- why ships float
- steel hulls trap enough air to win
- dead sea
- so salty humans bob like corks
- latin root
- from 'boia', a floating chain anchor
- emotional sense
- borrowed for moods that won't go under
dead sea — saltwater lake between israel and jordan where swimmers float effortlessly at 34.2% salinity
great salt lake — utah lake with 5-27% salinity depending on location, allowing people to bob like corks
red sea hot springs — hydrothermal vents off atlantis ii deep with 300°c fluid creating extreme buoyancy anomalies