fluidityn.
/fluːˈɪdᵻti/, U.S. /fluˈɪdᵻdi/ 1.
a. The quality or condition of being fluid.
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the world > matter > liquid > [noun] > quality or condition of being
liquor1477
liquidness1530
fluxure1600
fluidity1605
liquidity1620
fluidnessa1631
runnability1920
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. iv. D b Sulphur..with his humidity, softnesse, and fluidity or passablenes.
1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 491 A too great fluidity of the bloud..may cause death.
1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §60 Being good against too great fluidity as a balsamic.
1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xv. 359 The cement should be heated to fluidity.
1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 261 The immense resistance which the fluidity of the air offered to projectiles.
1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius iv. 107 A stream of lava of remarkable fluidity.
b. figurative and of non-physical things.
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the world > time > change > changeableness > [noun]
unstablenessc1340
varyingc1380
uncertaintyc1384
brotelnessc1386
were1390
instabilityc1422
bricklenessa1425
changeability?a1425
changeableness1447
vertibility1447
mutability?a1475
variableness?a1475
inconstance1509
mutationa1542
fickleness1548
variety1548
unconstancy1563
mobility1567
unstability1572
vicissitude1576
variousness1607
inconstancy1613
slipperinessa1618
alterableness1633
versatilousness1640
bottomlessness1642
lability1651
brittlety1652
versatileness1654
fluctuancy1659
fugitivenessa1661
alterability1661
permutability1662
unfixedness1668
mutablenessa1677
flittingnessa1680
frailness1687
flittiness1692
versability1721
plasticity1727
variability1771
unestablishment1776
fluctuabilitya1786
changefulness1791
unsettledness1799
versatility1802
harlequinism1808
fluidity1824
fitfulness1825
sensitiveness1825
insubstantiality1848
contingency1858
rootlessness1859
shiftingness1866
ficklety1888
variancy1888
impredicability1906
proteanism1909
1824 J. Galt Rothelan II. iv. iii. 116 If Ralph Hanslap had any fluidity of mind.
1873 Contemp. Rev. 22 794 The remarkable diffusion and fluidity of these distinctively Semitic names of God.
1886 E. Lynn Linton Paston Carew iii He..ridiculed the fossilization of Toryism equally with the fluidity of Radicalism.
1892 Speaker 3 Sept. 294/2 The fluidity and informality of the Church's prime.
2. Of speech, literary composition, etc.: The quality of flowing easily and clearly.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [noun] > fluency
profluence1568
flowing1584
slidingnessa1586
currentness1586
smoothness1589
facility1598
fluidity1603
fluency1636
profluencya1683
volubleness1727
torrentfulness1873
sonority1876
unrestraint1885
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxxvi. 115 First a blithe and ingenious fluiditie [Fr. fluidité], then a quaint-wittie, and loftie conceit.
1822 New Monthly Mag. 6 441/2 Singing with..sweetness and fluidity.
1880 A. C. Swinburne Study of Shakespeare (ed. 2) ii. 91 There is the same comparative tenuity and fluidity of verse.
1883 Nation (N.Y.) 29 Nov. 446/3 The letters [of Mme. de Rémusat]..have much grace, much fluidity of thought, and of expression.
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