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[syn: fugacity, fugaciousness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Fugacity \Fu*gac"i*ty\, a. [L fugacitas: cf. F. fugacit['e].]
1. The quality of being fugacious; fugaclousness; volatility;
as, fugacity of spirits. --Boyle.
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2. Uncertainty; instability. --Johnson.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
fugacity
n 1: the tendency of a gas to expand or escape
2: the lack of enduring qualities (used chiefly of plant parts)
[syn: fugacity, fugaciousness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "fugacity":
caducity, changeableness, corruptibility, death, ephemerality,
ephemeralness, evanescence, finitude, fleetingness, impermanence,
impermanency, instability, momentariness, mortality, mutability,
perishability, transience, transiency, transientness,
transitoriness, volatility