Fluidity

//fluˈɪd.ə.ti// noun

noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being fluid rather than viscous uncountable
  2. 2
    a changeable quality wordnet
  3. 3
    A measure of the extent to which something is fluid. The reciprocal of its viscosity. countable
  4. 4
    the property of flowing easily wordnet
  5. 5
    The quality of being fluid or free-flowing countable, uncountable

    "In addition to all this, the fluidity of the steam itself was much increased by high superheat, usually achieved by means of the Houlet superheater."

Example

More examples

"I must admit that reading Japanese with its cursive Hiragana phonograms, knife-stroke Katakana phonograms, and complicated Kanji logograms is very amusing. Printed Roman-lettered text of Western languages seems harder for my eyes and has less visual fluidity."

Etymology

From French fluidité.

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