fluidity

1. 1.

   the property of flowing easily

   “adding lead makes the alloy easier to cast because the melting point is reduced and the fluidity is increased”

   “they believe that fluidity increases as the water gets warmer”

   Synonymsfluidnessliquidityliquidnessrunniness

   Broaderthinness
2. 2.

   a changeable quality

   “a charming Oriental fluidity of manner”

   “a certain fluidness in his perception of time made him an unpredictable colleague”

   “demographers try to predict social fluidity”

   Synonymsfluidness

   Broaderchangeableness

Other forms of fluidity

plural

fluidities·

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 fluidity

What does fluidity mean?

fluidity means "the property of flowing easily". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fluidity?

fluidity has 4 syllables: flu-id-i-ty. The stress falls on "id". In IPA it is /fluˈɪdəti/.

What is another word for fluidity?

Close synonyms include fluidness, liquidity, liquidness, runniness, fluidness. 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 fluidity a common word?

fluidity is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.