free-floating
Adjective
Meaning
free-floating (not comparable)
(biology) That floats in water without attachment to anything and with no means of propulsion
Examples
Cultures are not made from free-floating values. They are rooted in institutions and organizations.
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.
We've got an agreeable, comfortable life here as Americans. But under it there's a huge, free-floating anxiety.
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.
A new estimate suggests the Milky Way contains more free-floating planets than stars.
Community interactions Coccolithophorids are predominantly found as single, free-floating haploid or diploid cells.