[syn: fluidity, fluidness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Fluidity \Flu*id"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. fluidit['e].]
The quality of being fluid or capable of flowing; a liquid,
a["e]riform, 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. --J. R. Green.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
fluidity
n 1: 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" [syn: fluidity,
fluidness, liquidity, liquidness, runniness]
2: 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" [syn: fluidity, fluidness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, windiness