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Yes. An object is weightless if gravity is the only force acting on it. (for example, a ball falling in a vacuum)

There is no true "weightlessness", because, even if two masses are separated by billions of light years, there is still a gravitational attraction force. There is a distance at which this cannot be felt anymore, but there is still a force.

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