flightiness

1. 1.

   the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment

   “I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory”

   Synonymsarbitrarinesswhimsicalitywhimsywhimseycapriciousness

   Broaderirresponsibility

Other forms of flightiness

plural

flightinesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about flightiness

What does flightiness mean?

flightiness means "the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment".

How many syllables are in flightiness?

flightiness has 3 syllables: fligh-ti-ness. The stress falls on "fligh".

What is another word for flightiness?

Close synonyms include arbitrariness, whimsicality, whimsy, whimsey, capriciousness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flightiness a common word?

flightiness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.