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fugacity
CIDE DICTIONARY
fugacity, a. [L fugacitas: cf. F. fugacité.].
- The quality of being fugacious; fugaclousness; volatility; as, fugacity of spirits. Boyle. [1913 Webster]
- Uncertainty; instability. Johnson. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
fugacity
caducity, changeableness, corruptibility, death, ephemerality, ephemeralness, evanescence, finitude, fleetingness, impermanence, impermanency, instability, momentariness, mortality, mutability, perishability, transience, transiency, transientness, transitoriness, volatilityROGET THESAURUS
fugacity
Transientness
N transience, transientness, evanescence, impermanence, fugacity, caducity, mortality, span, nine days' wonder, bubble, Mayfly, spurt, flash in the pan, temporary arrangement, interregnum, velocity, suddenness, changeableness, transient, transient boarder, transient guest, transient, transitory, transitive, passing, evanescent, fleeting, cursory, short-lived, ephemeral, flying, fugacious, fugitive, shifting, slippery, spasmodic, instantaneous, momentaneous, temporal, temporary, provisional, provisory, deciduous, perishable, mortal, precarious, unstable, insecure, impermanent, brief, quick, brisk, extemporaneous, summary, pressed for time, sudden, momentary, temporarily, pro tempore, for the moment, for a time, awhile, en passant, in transitu, in a short time, soon, briefly, at short notice, on the point of, on the eve of, in articulo, between cup and lip, one's days are numbered, the time is up, here today and gone tomorrow, non semper erit aestas, eheu! fugaces labuntur anni, sic transit gloria mundi, a schoolboy's tale, the wonder of the hour!, dum loquimur fugerit invidia aetas, fugit hora, all that is transitory is but an illusion.For further exploring for "fugacity" in Webster Dictionary Online