noun
Meaning 1
The quality of being flighty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
flightiness
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noun
Meaning 2
the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: arbitrariness, whimsicality, whimsy, whimsey, capriciousness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: irresponsibility, irresponsibleness
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English flighty Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English flightiness From flighty + -ness.
Across languages
Translations
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: лекоми́слие (lekomíslie) — the quality of being flighty
- Bulgarian: несерио́зност (neserióznost) — the quality of being flighty
- Irish: aeracht — the quality of being flighty
- Irish: aeráid — the quality of being flighty
- Italian: mutevolezza — the quality of being flighty
- Italian: volubilità — the quality of being flighty
- Turkish: hercailik — the quality of being flighty