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fugacity
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun fugacity has 2 senses
- fugacity(n = noun.attribute) Array - the tendency of a gas to expand or escape; Array is a kind of physical property
- fugacity(n = noun.attribute) fugaciousness - the lack of enduring qualities (used chiefly of plant parts); Array is a kind of transience, transiency, transitoriness
Derived form adjective fugacious1
CIDE DICTIONARY
fugacity, a. [L fugacitas: cf. F. fugacité.].
- The quality of being fugacious; fugaclousness; volatility; as, fugacity of spirits. Boyle. [1913 Webster]
- Uncertainty; instability. Johnson. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
fugacity
caducity, changeableness, corruptibility, death, ephemerality, ephemeralness, evanescence, finitude, fleetingness, impermanence, impermanency, instability, momentariness, mortality, mutability, perishability, transience, transiency, transientness, transitoriness, volatilityROGET THESAURUS
fugacity
Transientness
N transience, transientness, evanescence, impermanence, fugacity, caducity, mortality, span, nine days' wonder, bubble, Mayfly, spurt, flash in the pan, temporary arrangement, interregnum, velocity, suddenness, changeableness, transient, transient boarder, transient guest, transient, transitory, transitive, passing, evanescent, fleeting, cursory, short-lived, ephemeral, flying, fugacious, fugitive, shifting, slippery, spasmodic, instantaneous, momentaneous, temporal, temporary, provisional, provisory, deciduous, perishable, mortal, precarious, unstable, insecure, impermanent, brief, quick, brisk, extemporaneous, summary, pressed for time, sudden, momentary, temporarily, pro tempore, for the moment, for a time, awhile, en passant, in transitu, in a short time, soon, briefly, at short notice, on the point of, on the eve of, in articulo, between cup and lip, one's days are numbered, the time is up, here today and gone tomorrow, non semper erit aestas, eheu! fugaces labuntur anni, sic transit gloria mundi, a schoolboy's tale, the wonder of the hour!, dum loquimur fugerit invidia aetas, fugit hora, all that is transitory is but an illusion.
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