Flittiness

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being flitty; unsteadiness. obsolete, rare, uncountable

    "[…] had we but the same delight in heavenly objects, did we but receive the truth in the love of it, and mingle it with faith in the hearing, this would fix that volatileness and flittiness of our memories, and make every truth as indelible, as it is necessary."

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"[…] had we but the same delight in heavenly objects, did we but receive the truth in the love of it, and mingle it with faith in the hearing, this would fix that volatileness and flittiness of our memories, and make every truth as indelible, as it is necessary."

Etymology

From flitty + -ness.

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