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LIQUIDITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does liquidity mean?
• LIQUIDITY (noun)
The noun LIQUIDITY has 3 senses:
1. the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility
2. the property of flowing easily
3. being in cash or easily convertible to cash; debt paying ability
Familiarity information: LIQUIDITY used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
liquid; liquid state; liquidity; liquidness
Hypernyms ("liquidity" is a kind of...):
state; state of matter ((chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container))
Derivation:
liquid (filled or brimming with tears)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The property of flowing easily
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
fluidity; fluidness; liquidity; liquidness; runniness
Context example:
they believe that fluidity increases as the water gets warmer
Hypernyms ("liquidity" is a kind of...):
thinness (a consistency of low viscosity)
Derivation:
liquid (existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Being in cash or easily convertible to cash; debt paying ability
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("liquidity" is a kind of...):
exchangeability; fungibility; interchangeability; interchangeableness (the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange)
Derivation:
liquid (in cash or easily convertible to cash)
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