levitation vs ascending

levitation and ascending both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
levitation	Yes	No	No	No
ascending	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, ascending is a hypernym of levitation; that is, ascending is a word with a broader meaning than levitation:

levitation: the act of raising (a body) from the ground by presumably spiritualistic means
ascending: the act of changing location in an upward direction

Other hypernyms of levitation include ascension, ascent, rise.

levitation (noun)	ascending (noun)
the act of raising (a body) from the ground by presumably spiritualistic means	the act of changing location in an upward direction
movement upward in virtue of lightness
the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means

levitation (adjective)	ascending (adjective)
	moving or going or growing upward