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LIQUIDNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of flowing easily
Example:
they believe that fluidity increases as the water gets warmer
Synonyms:
fluidity; fluidness; liquidity; liquidness; runniness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("liquidness" is a kind of...):
thinness (a consistency of low viscosity)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility
Synonyms:
liquid; liquid state; liquidity; liquidness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("liquidness" is a kind of...):
state; state of matter ((chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container))
Derivation:
liquid (changed from a solid to a liquid state)
liquid (existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow)
liquid (filled or brimming with tears)
