Volatility

3 definitions found

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

  Volatileness \Vol"a*tile*ness\, Volatility \Vol`a*til"i*ty\, n.
     [Cf. F. volatilit['e].]
     Quality or state of being volatile; disposition to evaporate;
     changeableness; fickleness.
     [1913 Webster]
  


     Syn: See {Levity}.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  volatility
       n 1: the property of changing readily from a solid or liquid to a
            vapor
       2: the trait of being unpredictably irresolute; "the volatility
          of the market drove many investors away" [syn: {unpredictability}]
       3: being easily excited [syn: {excitability}, {excitableness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  79 Moby Thesaurus words for "volatility":
     airiness, animation, ascent, brainlessness, bubbliness, buoyancy,
     caducity, changeability, changeableness, coquettishness,
     corruptibility, daintiness, death, delicacy, downiness,
     empty-headedness, ephemerality, ephemeralness, ethereality,
     evanescence, evaporability, faddishness, faddism, fickleness,
     finitude, fleetingness, flightiness, flippancy, floatability,
     fluffiness, foaminess, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness,
     frothiness, fugacity, gentleness, giddiness, gossameriness,
     impermanence, impermanency, inconstancy, instability,
     lack of depth, lack of weight, levitation, levity, lightness,
     mercuriality, mercurialness, momentariness, mortality, mutability,
     perishability, shallow-wittedness, shallowness, skittishness,
     softness, sprightliness, superficiality, tenderness, thinness,
     thoughtlessness, transience, transiency, transientness,
     transitoriness, undependability, unheaviness, unpredictability,
     unprofoundness, unprofundity, unreliability, vaporability,
     vaporizability, variability, weightlessness, witlessness,
     yeastiness