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LIQUIDITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The property of flowing easily
Example:
they believe that fluidity increases as the water gets warmer
Synonyms:
fluidity; fluidness; liquidity; liquidness; runniness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
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:
The state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility
Synonyms:
liquid; liquid state; liquidity; liquidness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
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)
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