fluidity
/fluːˈɪdɪti
/noun [mass noun]
1The ability of a substance to flow easily: lead especially assists in the fluidity of the molten metal...
- He aims for a soft, blurry touch perfectly served by the fluidity of oil.
- The frozen fluidity of blown glass captures something of the organic dynamism of plant life.
- They created an image of fluidity with colored strings arranged in swags dropped from the ceiling.
1.1Smooth elegance or grace: they moved with supreme skill and graceful fluidity...
- Its look has been likened to rotoscoping, but it feels more solid, less amorphous, and yet it moves with greater fluidity.
- There is a fluidity of movement between them that enables the subjective experience of social interactions to occur in all domains simultaneously.
- He constructs a cascade of stories that bleed into each other with a baffling, hypnotic fluidity.
1.2The state of being unsettled or unstable; changeability: tactical considerations can change rapidly given the fluidity of the situation...
- The fluidity of ideas leads to a disorientation of familiar assumptions.
- Closer scrutiny reveals their raw, uncanny ability to represent the complexity and fluidity of human identity.
- The fluidity of the game is anything but constant.
