Fugacity

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.
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     2. Uncertainty; instability. --Johnson.


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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