levitation

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The raising of something, such as a body, without apparent physical cause, allegedly using the power of the mind.
2. (countable, uncountable)The suspension of something via technical means without any mechanical support, such as by magnetism.

   “It was erected by the application of those universal laws and forces of nature which cause iron to float. By the same laws, gravity may be overcome or neutralized, and stone made to float in air. The Pyramid was thus built by levitation, abetted by song and chanting, much in the same manner in which the Druids of England set up their huge stones at a later period.”

   “We then had to endure a four-hour-long change of bogies at Brest - from the Soviet 1520mm-wide gauge to the 1435mm Polish and West European - when our carriage, with passengers inside, was lifted off the track by giant railway jacks, giving us a brief and not entirely unpleasant feeling of levitation.”