fluidity
Americannoun
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fluidities
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the quality or state of being fluid.
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Physics.
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the ability of a substance to flow.
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a measure of this ability, the reciprocal of the coefficient of viscosity.
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noun
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the state of being fluid
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physics the reciprocal of viscosity
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Explanation
Fluidity is a quality of being graceful or flowing, like the fluidity of a dancer's movements. Things that move with easy, smooth motions have fluidity — think of clouds moving across the sky on a windy day, or the way a modern dancer's body moves. This adjective can also mean "changeable," like the fluidity of ideas being exchanged during a high school debate class. As a physical quality, you might also describe the fluidity of any substance that's fluid, or behaves like a liquid.
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The melody lines of the bass in R.E.M. songs are singularly melodic and distinctive, with a fluidity that makes them seem simple when they are not.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
While Armani already used these luminous touches in his eveningwear, Silvana Armani has multiplied them to emphasise the fluidity and lightness of her silhouettes.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Yet however avant-garde in form, Saramago’s prose achieves an expert fluidity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
But it was the fluidity of London City's link-up play that caught the eye - a group of superstars looking like a good team in the first game of the season.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
He would walk along groping in the air, although he passed between objects with an inexplicable fluidity, as if he were endowed with some instinct of direction based on an immediate prescience.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gerwig’s “Little Women” leans into the book’s fluidities and contradictions, especially among the characters themselves, who are self-sacrificing and ethereal one moment and graspingly materialistic the next.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 18, 2019
His hands pass over the keys and he produces Chopin-like fluidities.
From Confessions of a Young Man by George (George Augustus) Moore
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