FUGACITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fugacity mean? 

• FUGACITY (noun)
  The noun FUGACITY has 2 senses:

1. the tendency of a gas to expand or escape

2. the lack of enduring qualities (used chiefly of plant parts)

  Familiarity information: FUGACITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FUGACITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The tendency of a gas to expand or escape

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("fugacity" is a kind of...):

physical property (any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The lack of enduring qualities (used chiefly of plant parts)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

fugaciousness; fugacity

Hypernyms ("fugacity" is a kind of...):

transience; transiency; transitoriness (an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying)

Domain category:

flora; plant; plant life ((botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion)

Derivation:

fugacious (lasting a very short time)