- flightiness
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New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
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Flightiness — Flight i*ness, n. The state or quality of being flighty. [1913 Webster] The flightness of her temper. Hawthorne. Syn: Levity; giddiness; volatility; lightness; wildness; eccentricity. See {Levity}. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
flightiness — index inconsistency Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
flightiness — light mindedness, volatility, levity, *Iightness, frivolity, flippancy Analogous words: capriciousness, unstableness or instability, fickleness, mercurialness or mercuriality, inconstancy (see corresponding adjectives at INCONSTANT):… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
flightiness — [n] irresponsibility airheadedness*, capriciousness, changeability, dizziness, fickleness, flippancy, frivolity, giddiness, inconstancy, instability, levity, lightness, mercurialness, variability, volatility, whimsicality, whimsicalness; concept… … New thesaurus
flightiness — flighty ► ADJECTIVE (flightier, flightiest) ▪ frivolous and fickle. DERIVATIVES flightiness noun … English terms dictionary
flightiness — noun 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 • Syn: ↑arbitrariness, ↑whimsicality, ↑whimsy, ↑whimsey, ↑capriciousness • Derivationally … Useful english dictionary
flightiness — See flightily. * * * … Universalium
flightiness — noun The quality of being flighty … Wiktionary
flightiness — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. giddiness, fickleness, inconstancy, changeability, volatility, mercurialness, frivolity, levity, capriciousness, whimsicality, eccentricity, variability, irresponsibility, instability, lightheadedness, dizziness* … English dictionary for students
flightiness — flight·i·ness || flaɪtɪnɪs n. frivolousness; fickleness; fanciful quality, whimsical quality; irresponsibility … English contemporary dictionary
