Flightiness

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flightiness \Flight"i*ness\, n.
     The state or quality of being flighty.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The flightness of her temper.            --Hawthorne.
  


     Syn: Levity; giddiness; volatility; lightness; wildness;
          eccentricity. See {Levity}.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  flightiness
       n : the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or
           caprice than from reason or judgment; "I despair at the
           flightiness and whimsicality of my memory" [syn: {arbitrariness},
            {whimsicality}, {whimsy}, {whimsey}, {capriciousness}]