3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Uncertainty; instability. --Johnson. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: fugacity n 1: the tendency of a gas to expand or escape 2: the lack of enduring qualities (used chiefly of plant parts) [syn: {fugaciousness}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 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
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