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fluidity|fluːˈɪdɪtɪ|
[f. fluid a. + -ity. Cf. F. fluidité.]
1. The quality or condition of being fluid.
1605Timme Quersit. i. iv. D b, Sulphur..with his humidity, softnesse, and fluidity or passablenes. 1667Phil. Trans. II. 491 A too great fluidity of the bloud..may cause death. 1744Berkeley Siris §60 Being good against too great fluidity as a balsamic. 1827Faraday Chem. Manip. xv. 359 The cement should be heated to fluidity. 1858Greener Gunnery 261 The immense resistance which the fluidity of the air offered to projectiles. 1869Phillips Vesuv. iv. 107 A stream of lava of remarkable fluidity.
b. fig. and of non-physical things.
1824Galt Rothelan II. iv. iii. 116 If Ralph Hanslap had any fluidity of mind. 1873Contemp. Rev. XXII. 794 The remarkable diffusion and fluidity of these distinctively Semitic names of God. 1886Mrs. E. Lynn Linton Paston Carew iii, He..ridiculed the fossilization of Toryism equally with the fluidity of Radicalism. 1892Speaker 3 Sept. 294/2 The fluidity and informality of the Church's prime.
2. Of speech, literary composition, etc.: The quality of flowing easily and clearly.
1603Florio Montaigne i. xxxvi. 115 First a blithe and ingenious fluiditie [F. fluidité], then a quaint-wittie and loftie conceit. 1822New Monthly Mag. VI. 441 Singing with..sweetness and fluidity. 1880Swinburne Study Shaks. ii. (ed. 2) 91 There is the same comparative tenuity and fluidity of verse. 1883Nation (N.Y.) 29 Nov. 446/3 The letters [of Mme. de Rémusat]..have much grace, much fluidity of thought, and of expression. |