Adjective
free-floating (not comparable)
(biology) That floats in water without attachment to anything and with no means of propulsion
Cultures are not made from free-floating values. They are rooted in institutions and organizations. Manuel Castells
There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting. Jack Nicholson
We've got an agreeable, comfortable life here as Americans. But under it there's a huge, free-floating anxiety. Norman Mailer
American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism. Susan Sontag
A new estimate suggests the Milky Way contains more free-floating planets than stars. Source: Internet
Community interactions Coccolithophorids are predominantly found as single, free-floating haploid or diploid cells. Source: Internet