Synonyms for volatility
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Excitability
2. Instability
instability, unpredictability, fickleness, giddiness, levity, frivolity, lightness, airiness, inconstancy, changeableness, flightiness
Definitions
- n. 1
The state of being volatile.
- n. 2
The state of having a low boiling point and evaporating readily.
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- volatilities → excitabilities, instabilities, unpredictabilities, ficklenesses…
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Levity springs from a lightness of mind which produces a disregard of the proprieties of time and place.Volatility is a degree of levity which causes the thoughts to fly from one object to another, without resting on any for a moment.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Example sentences
- instability There is constant political instability in Morocco.
- unpredictability The beauty of life lies in its unpredictability.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| volatility | rising | |
| instability | steady | |
| unpredictability | rising | |
| ephemerality | rising | |
| sprightliness | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 6 letters
- levity3
- 8 letters
- airiness
- 9 letters
- lightness2, frivolity4, giddiness
- 10 letters
- fickleness3
- 11 letters
- instability5, inconstancy4, flightiness
- 12 letters
- excitability, ephemerality, volatileness
- 13 letters
- sprightliness, excitableness
- 14 letters
- changeableness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (levity3 = 3 syllables).