Definition of Flightiness

1. Noun. 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"


Definition of Flightiness

1. n. The state or quality of being flighty.

Definition of Flightiness

1. Noun. The quality of being flighty. ¹

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Definition of Flightiness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flightiness

flight recorder
flight recorders
flight risk
flight simulator
flight strip
flight surgeon
flightcraft
flighted
flighted(ip)
flighten
flighter
flighters
flightier
flightiest
flightily
flightiness
flightinesses
flighting
flightless
flightless bird
flightlessly
flightlessness
flightpath
flightpaths
flights
flightseeing
flightworthy
flighty
flim
flim-flam

Literary usage of Flightiness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Walter Savage Landor: A Biography by John Forster (1869)
"... who criticises with the flightiness of a poet, will assume that character at once, and taking in series my twenty worst verses, write better r. ..."

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