fluidity

[floo-id-i-tee]

noun

1. the quality or state of being fluid.

2. Physics.

   1. the ability of a substance to flow.

   2. a measure of this ability, the reciprocal of the coefficient of viscosity.

fluidity

/ fluːˈɪdɪtɪ /

noun

1. the state of being fluid

2. physics the reciprocal of viscosity

Other Word Forms

• nonfluidity noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of fluidity¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; fluid + -ity

Example Sentences

They were familiar with flexible new metal alloys that could sustain these chairs’ fluidity and springiness for years without snapping.

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Literature about work proliferated partly because of “the fluidity of American labor,” says Nancy Koehn, a historian at Harvard Business School.

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Developments like the expanded playoff, “name, image, likeness” reform and the transfer portal have fostered a competitive fluidity that challenges the entrenched powers.

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Alongside Arda Guler, he will be central to giving the team greater fluidity and attacking threat.

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Basketball confers many advantages to the vertically blessed, but grace and fluidity are typically not two of them.

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