volatility

volatility
n
1. vaporability, vaporizability, evap-orability; evaporableness, vaporousness, vaporiness, vaporosity; gaseousness.
2. explosiveness, fieriness, tension.
3. flightiness, changefulness, capriciousness, whimsicality, impulsiveness, fickleness, inconstancy, moon-ishness, changeableness, variability; mercurialness, unsteadiness, instability; giddiness, irregularity, fitfulness, unevenness.
4. transience, transitoriness, temporariness, imper-manence; briefness, shortness, momentariness; evanescence, ephemerality, frailty, caducity.

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