flightiness

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flightiness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Flightiness \Flight"i*ness\, n.
     The state or quality of being flighty.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The flightness of her temper.            --Hawthorne.
  
     Syn: Levity; giddiness; volatility; lightness; wildness;
          eccentricity. See Levity.
          [1913 Webster]

flightiness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  flightiness
      n 1: 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" [syn:
           flightiness, arbitrariness, whimsicality, whimsy,
           whimsey, capriciousness]