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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. the property of changing readily from a solid or liquid to a vapor;

2. the trait of being unpredictably irresolute;
- Example: "the volatility of the market drove many investors away"
[syn: volatility, unpredictability]

3. being easily excited;
[syn: excitability, excitableness, volatility]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Volatileness \Vol"a*tile*ness\, Volatility \Vol`a*til"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. volatilit['e].] Quality or state of being volatile; disposition to evaporate; changeableness; fickleness. [1913 Webster] Syn: See Levity. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

volatility n 1: the property of changing readily from a solid or liquid to a vapor 2: the trait of being unpredictably irresolute; "the volatility of the market drove many investors away" [syn: volatility, unpredictability] 3: being easily excited [syn: excitability, excitableness, volatility]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

79 Moby Thesaurus words for "volatility": airiness, animation, ascent, brainlessness, bubbliness, buoyancy, caducity, changeability, changeableness, coquettishness, corruptibility, daintiness, death, delicacy, downiness, empty-headedness, ephemerality, ephemeralness, ethereality, evanescence, evaporability, faddishness, faddism, fickleness, finitude, fleetingness, flightiness, flippancy, floatability, fluffiness, foaminess, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, frothiness, fugacity, gentleness, giddiness, gossameriness, impermanence, impermanency, inconstancy, instability, lack of depth, lack of weight, levitation, levity, lightness, mercuriality, mercurialness, momentariness, mortality, mutability, perishability, shallow-wittedness, shallowness, skittishness, softness, sprightliness, superficiality, tenderness, thinness, thoughtlessness, transience, transiency, transientness, transitoriness, undependability, unheaviness, unpredictability, unprofoundness, unprofundity, unreliability, vaporability, vaporizability, variability, weightlessness, witlessness, yeastiness