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liquidity|lɪˈkwɪdɪtɪ|
[ad. L. liquiditāt-em, f. liquidus liquid a.: see -ity. Cf. F. liquidité.]
a. The quality or condition of being liquid.
1620Venner Via Recta viii. 183 They..doe..by reason of their liquiditie, very fitly prepare the way for other meats. 1653H. More Conject. Cabbal. (1713) 83 Air and Water, for their thinness and liquidity, are very like one another. 1758Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornwall 82 Passing from a state of liquidity into a state of solidity. 1794Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 398 Lavas owe their liquidity to melted bitumen and sulphur. 1813–21Bentham Ontology Wks. 1843 VIII. 200 Of such of them as are in a state of fluidity, liquidity and gaseosity included. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. iii. 29 Heavy rain fell,..but it came from a region high above that of liquidity. 1871Roscoe Elem. Chem. 40 This amount of heat which is necessary to keep the water in the liquid form..is..termed the heat of liquidity. 1881G. Macdonald Mary Marston I. ii. 33 Eyes..with..more than a touch of hardness in the midst of their liquidity.
†b. Rarefied condition, subtlety. Obs.
1665Glanvill Scepsis Sci. vi. 28 The spirits, for their liquidity, are more uncapable than the fluid Medium, which is the conveyer of Sounds, to persevere in the continued repetition of vocal Ayres.
c. Of sound: Clearness or purity of tone.
1817Keats Sleep & Poetry 371 The wild Thrilling liquidity of dewy piping. 1819P. Morris in Blackw. Mag. VI. 309 The mind wandering abroad rejoices in joining itself with..the soothing liquidity of rivers. 1821Examiner 155/2 Sweet and indefinable liquidity of tone.
d. Econ. The interchangeability of assets and money; hence liquidity preference, the holding of assets in money or near-money in preference to securities or interest-bearing investments; liquidity ratio, that proportion of total assets which is held in liquid or cash form, esp. by a bank.
1923R. G. Hawtrey Currency & Credit (ed. 2) v. 83 The liquidity of the Bank of England is secured by its power of printing notes, and the interchangeability of its deposits with cash is absolute. 1925G. G. Munn Bank Credit i. 9 Gold is the ultimate in liquidity, the ultimate intermediate of exchange, and is ipso facto irredeemable. 1936J. M. Keynes Gen. Theory Employment xiii. 168 Liquidity-preference is a potentiality or functional tendency, which fixes the quantity of money which the public will hold when the rate of interest is given. Ibid. xvii. 241 Money itself rapidly loses the attribute of ‘liquidity’ if its future supply is expected to undergo sharp changes. 1940Economist 27 Jan. 152/1 The attainment of a more than adequate liquidity ratio is perhaps the main feature..over the past year. 1940G. Crowther Outl. Money ii. 76 The more highly developed banking systems are more prone to suffer from such a ‘liquidity preference’ than the less developed countries. 1958Economist 26 July 281/2 The real spark-plug of expansion—improved international liquidity—cannot be discussed in the Commonwealth context alone. 1961Ann. Reg. 1960 488 The ‘liquidity ratio’ is the proportion of ‘liquid assets’, i.e. cash, short money and bills, to gross deposits. 1962C. H. Kreps Money i. i. 12 One view of the fundamental nature of interest regards interest as compensation for loss of liquidity. Ibid., Using this liquidity-preference approach, we may say that wealth held in absolutely liquid form—in the form of money, that is—yields its owner no income. 1969Times 5 May (Suppl.) p. iv/3 The market would lose its liquidity... As liquidity declined.., public confidence would lessen considerably. 1972Accountant 23 Mar. 385/1 It was necessary to increase liquidity during the year to finance the continuing substantial capital programme. |