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fluidity
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun fluidity has 2 senses
- fluidity(n = noun.attribute) fluidness, liquidity, liquidness, runniness - the property of flowing easily; "adding lead makes the alloy easier to cast because the melting point is reduced and the fluidity is increased"; "they believe that fluidity increases as the water gets warmer" is a kind of thinness
- fluidity(n = noun.attribute) fluidness - a changeable quality; "a charming Oriental fluidity of manner"; "a certain fluidness in his perception of time made him an unpredictable colleague"; "demographers try to predict social fluidity" is a kind of changeability, changeableness
Derived form adjective fluid2
CIDE DICTIONARY
fluidity, n. [Cf. F. fluidité.].
The quality of being fluid or capable of flowing; a liquid, aëriform, or gaseous state; -- opposed to solidity . [1913 Webster]
"It was this want of organization, this looseness and fluidity of the new movement, that made it penetrate through every class of society."
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THESAURUS
fluidity
adaptability, adjustability, aeriness, alterability, changeability, changeableness, changefulness, chylifaction, chylification, ethereality, flatulence, flatuosity, flexibility, flow, fluency, fluidness, flux, fluxility, fluxion, gaseity, gaseous state, gaseousness, gassiness, impermanence, juiciness, lactation, lactescence, liquefaction, liquidness, malleability, milkiness, mobility, modifiability, moisture, movability, mutability, nonuniformity, permutability, plasticity, resilience, rheuminess, rubberiness, sappiness, serosity, succulence, suppleness, suppuration, transience, transitoriness, vapor pressure, vaporiness, vaporousness, wateriness, windinessROGET THESAURUS
fluidity
Fluidity
N fluidity, liquidity, liquidness, gaseity, fluid, inelastic fluid, liquid, liquor, lymph, humor, juice, sap, serum, blood, serosity, gravy, rheum, ichor, sanies, chyle, solubility, solubleness, hydrology, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, liquid, fluid, serous, juicy, succulent, sappy, ichorous, fluent, liquefied, uncongealed, soluble.
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