[syn: excitability, excitableness, volatility]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Volatileness \Vol"a*tile*ness\, Volatility \Vol`a*til"i*ty\, n.
[Cf. F. volatilit['e].]
Quality or state of being volatile; disposition to evaporate;
changeableness; fickleness.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: See Levity.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
volatility
n 1: the property of changing readily from a solid or liquid to
a vapor
2: the trait of being unpredictably irresolute; "the volatility
of the market drove many investors away" [syn: volatility,
unpredictability]
3: being easily excited [syn: excitability, excitableness,
volatility]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
79 Moby Thesaurus words for "volatility":
airiness, animation, ascent, brainlessness, bubbliness, buoyancy,
caducity, changeability, changeableness, coquettishness,
corruptibility, daintiness, death, delicacy, downiness,
empty-headedness, ephemerality, ephemeralness, ethereality,
evanescence, evaporability, faddishness, faddism, fickleness,
finitude, fleetingness, flightiness, flippancy, floatability,
fluffiness, foaminess, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness,
frothiness, fugacity, gentleness, giddiness, gossameriness,
impermanence, impermanency, inconstancy, instability,
lack of depth, lack of weight, levitation, levity, lightness,
mercuriality, mercurialness, momentariness, mortality, mutability,
perishability, shallow-wittedness, shallowness, skittishness,
softness, sprightliness, superficiality, tenderness, thinness,
thoughtlessness, transience, transiency, transientness,
transitoriness, undependability, unheaviness, unpredictability,
unprofoundness, unprofundity, unreliability, vaporability,
vaporizability, variability, weightlessness, witlessness,
yeastiness