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| Main Entry: |
volatility
 [vol-uh-tl, -til or, especially Brit., -tahyl] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evaporation |
| Synonyms: | dryness, vaporization, vaporousness |
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| Main Entry: | volatility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excitability |
| Synonyms: | explosiveness, unpredictability |
| Main Entry: | effervescence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm, vivacity |
| Synonyms: | animation, buoyancy, ebullience, excitedness, excitement, exhilaration, exuberance, exuberancy, gaiety, happiness, high spirits, joy, liveliness, vim, vitality, volatility, zing |
| Antonyms: | dullness, flatness |
Example Sentences
- The volatility index is impacting the individual investor.
- Volatility is also a feature of the container market.
- The financial woes of state and local governments have heightened the muni market's volatility.
| Main Entry: | flightiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irresponsibility |
| Synonyms: | airheadedness, capriciousness, changeability, dizziness, fickleness, flippancy, frivolity, giddiness, inconstancy, instability, levity, lightness, mercurialness, variability, volatility, whimsicality, whimsicalness |
| Antonyms: | responsibility |
| Main Entry: | flippancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irreverence |
| Synonyms: | archness, cheek, cheekiness, cockiness, disrespectfulness, flightiness, freshness, frivolity, impertinence, impishness, impudence, levity, lightness, mischievousness, pertness, playfulness, roguishness, rudeness, sauciness, volatility, waggishness |
| Antonyms: | courtesy, respect, reverence, seriousness |
| Main Entry: | frivolity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | silliness, childishness |
| Synonyms: | coquetting, dallying, flightiness, flippancy, flirting, flummery, folly, fribble, frippery, frivolousness, fun, gaiety, game, giddiness, jest, levity, lightheartedness, lightness, nonsense, play, puerility, shallowness, sport, superficiality, toying, trifling, triviality, volatility, whimsicality, whimsy |
| Antonyms: | sensibility, seriousness, wiseness |
| Main Entry: | instability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imbalance, inconstancy |
| Synonyms: | alternation, anxiety, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, disequilibrium, disquiet, fickleness, fitfulness, flightiness, fluctuation, fluidity, frailty, hesitation, immaturity, impermanence, inconsistency, inquietude, insecurity, irregularity, irresolution, mutability, oscillation, pliancy, precariousness, restlessness, shakiness, transience, uncertainty, unfixedness, unpredictability, unreliability, unsteadiness, vacillation, variability, volatility, vulnerability, wavering, weakness |
| Antonyms: | balance, constancy, soundness, stability, steadfastness |
| Main Entry: | levity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | funniness, silliness |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, amusement, buoyancy, facetiousness, festivity, fickleness, flightiness, flippancy, folly, foolishness, frivolity, giddiness, happiness, high spirits, hilarity, jocularity, laughs, lightheartedness, mirth, picnic, pleasantry, repartee, trifling, triviality, volatility, wit |
| Antonyms: | gravity, seriousness |
| Main Entry: | insecureness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instability |
| Synonyms: | alternation, anxiety, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, disequilibrium, disquiet, fickleness, fitfulness, flightiness, fluctuation, fluidity, frailty, hesitation, immaturity, impermanence, inconsistency, inquietude, insecurity, irregularity, irresolution, mutability, oscillation, pliancy, precariousness, restlessness, shakiness, transience, uncertainty, unfixedness, unpredictability, unreliability, unstableness, unsteadiness, unsureness, vacillation, variability, volatility, vulnerability, wavering, weakness* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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