fluidity
[floo-id-i-tee]
- the quality or state of being fluid.
- Physics.
- the ability of a substance to flow.
- a measure of this ability, the reciprocal of the coefficient of viscosity.Compare rhe.
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Origin of fluidity
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Contemporary Examples
She continued: “It also raises the issue of choice, and it also raises the issue of fluidity.”
The Noah-like rain is an opportunity for Carey to examine the fluidity of human feelings.
Its fluidity is a strength, because it is so complex and multi-layered.
Consuelo Castiglioni channeled “a new sense of ease and fluidity” at Marni, with muted robes layered over skin-colored silks.
Historical Examples
With obliterating unconcern, she reduced them to the fluidity of the inchoate.
The Paliser caseEdgar Saltus
The fluidity is increased by starting from a cotton which has been previously mercerised.
Researches on CelluloseC. F. Cross
These motor boys and girls have what I may characterize as fluidity of the attention.
The Story of the MindJames Mark Baldwin
Its fluidity at the best is very imperfect, and its motion is very slow.
Rollo in NaplesJacob Abbott
Only on this condition can he get used to the fluid's fluidity.
Creative EvolutionHenri Bergson
fluidity
- the state of being fluid
- physics the reciprocal of viscosity
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Word Origin and History for fluidity
n.
c.1600, from French fluidité, from fluide (see fluid (adj.)), or else formed in English from fluid.
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