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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 incompressibilityplay

2. the property of flowing easilyplay

3. being in cash or easily convertible to cash; debt paying abilityplay

  Familiarity information: LIQUIDITY used as a noun is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


LIQUIDITY (noun)


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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