LIQUIDNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does liquidness mean? 

• LIQUIDNESS (noun)
  The noun LIQUIDNESS has 2 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

  Familiarity information: LIQUIDNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIQUIDNESS (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 ("liquidness" 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 (changed from a solid to a liquid state)

liquid (existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow)

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 ("liquidness" is a kind of...):

thinness (a consistency of low viscosity)