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The trait of acting more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment
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flightiness
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Word definitions for flightiness in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flightiness \Flight"i*ness\, n. The state or quality of being flighty. The flightness of her temper. --Hawthorne. Syn: Levity; giddiness; volatility; lightness; wildness; eccentricity. See Levity .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality of being flighty.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment; "I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory" [syn: arbitrariness , whimsicality , whimsy , whimsey , capriciousness ]
Usage examples of flightiness.
True, there were occasions before, owing to his flightiness, and I even used to help him out .
As far as Harry was concerned such things were much to blame for the general flightiness and romantical inclinations that characterized so much of the female population.