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Liquidity   /lɪkwˈɪdəti/  /lɪkwˈɪdɪti/   Listen
Liquidity

noun
1.
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, liquidness.
2.
The property of flowing easily.  Synonyms: fluidity, fluidness, liquidness, runniness.  "They believe that fluidity increases as the water gets warmer"
3.
Being in cash or easily convertible to cash; debt paying ability.



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"Liquidity" Quotes from Famous Books



... at the Galapagos, at a distance, instances of those most curious fissures of eruption. There are many points of resemblance between the Galapagos and Sandwich Islands (even to the shape of the mound-like hills)—viz., in the liquidity of the lavas, absence of scoriae, and tuff-craters. Many of your scattered remarks on denudation have particularly interested me; but I see that you attribute less to sea and more to running water than I have been accustomed ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II - Volume II (of II) • Charles Darwin
... milord, a little more to the right. Thank you—thank you very much. And if you will do me the favor to look at me ... for the expression of the eye—just so—thank you! A most important point, milord, is the expression of the eye. When I say the expression, I mean the fire, the sparkle, the liquidity ... enfin the expression!" ...
— In the Days of My Youth • Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards
... songstress on the steamer would not have said what she did had there not been good basis therefor. So, without seeming to notice the hush—the most sincere tribute possible—he sang the old favorite "Mavourneen," and at its conclusion "Annie Laurie," with a liquidity of tone that was never surpassed by throat ...
— The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters • Edward S. Ellis


Words linked to "Liquidity" :   state of matter, state, thinness, interchangeability, exchangeability, interchangeableness, fungibility


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