fluidity

English

Etymology

From French fluidité

Noun

fluidity (countable and uncountable, plural fluidities)

1. (uncountable) The state of being fluid rather than viscous
2. (countable) A measure of the extent to which something is fluid. The reciprocal of its viscosity.
3. The quality of being fluid or free-flowing
   • 2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Either side of Rooney's fluffed chance, it was a tale of Ukrainian domination as they attacked England down both flanks and showed the greater fluidity of the teams.

Antonyms

• viscosity

Derived terms

Terms derived from fluidity

• ferrofluidity
• genderfluidity
• hyperfluidity

• microfluidity
• semifluidity
• superfluidity

Translations

the state of being fluid rather than viscous

• Bulgarian: течливост f (tečlivost)
• Georgian: დენადობა (denadoba)

• Portuguese: fluidez (pt) f
• Russian: теку́честь (ru) f (tekúčestʹ)