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volatility
noun
1 volatility
The property of changing readily from a solid or liquid to a vapor.
Roget 320:
levity;
lightness
etc.
adj.;
imponderability,
buoyancy,
volatility.
feather,
dust,
mote,
down,
thistle,
down,
flue,
cobweb,
gossamer,
straw,
cork,
bubble,
balloon;
float,
buoy;
ether,
air.
leaven,
ferment,
barm†,
yeast.
lighter-than-air balloon,
helium balloon,
hydrogen balloon,
hot air balloon.
convection,
thermal draft,
thermal.
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Roget 336:
vaporization,
volatilization;
gasification,
evaporation,
vaporation†;
distillation,
cupellation [Chem],
cohobation,
sublimination†,
exhalation;
volatility.
vaporizer,
still,
retort;
fumigation,
steaming;
bay salt,
chloride of sodium†.
mister,
spray.
bubble,
effervescence. '
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Roget 334:
gaseity†;
vaporousness
etc.
adj.;
flatulence,
flatulency;
volatility;
aeration,
aerification.
elastic fluid,
gas,
air,
vapor,
ether,
steam,
essence,
fume,
reek,
effluvium,
flatus;
cloud
etc.
353;
ammonia,
ammoniacal gas†;
volatile alkali;
vacuum,
partial vacuum.
[Science of elastic fluids]
pneumatics,
pneumatostatics†;
aerostatics†,
aerodynamics.
gasmeter†,
gasometer†;
air bladder,
swimming bladder,
sound,
(of a fish).
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Dutch: vluchtigheid
2 volatility
The trait of being unpredictably irresolute:
— The volatility of the market drove many investors away.
synonym: unpredictability.
3 volatility
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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