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Liquidity   /lɪkwˈɪdəti/  /lɪkwˈɪdɪti/   Listen
Liquidity

noun
1.
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, liquidness.
2.
The property of flowing easily.  Synonyms: fluidity, fluidness, liquidness, runniness.  "They believe that fluidity increases as the water gets warmer"
3.
Being in cash or easily convertible to cash; debt paying ability.



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"Liquidity" Quotes from Famous Books



... like a Persian-loom design, Across the homemade carpet—fades,—and then The dear old colors are themselves again. Sounds drop in visiting from everywhere— The bluebird's and the robin's trill are there, Their sweet liquidity diluted some By dewy orchard spaces they have come: Sounds of the town, too, and the great highway— The Mover-wagons' rumble, and the neigh Of overtraveled horses, and the bleat Of sheep and low of cattle through ...
— A Child-World • James Whitcomb Riley
... of so great rarity, and if its particles occupy so small a portion of the space of its apparent bulk, it is very strange how it yet resists Compression so strongly without permitting itself to be condensed by any force which one has hitherto essayed to employ, preserving even its entire liquidity ...
— Treatise on Light • Christiaan Huygens
... was credibly reported to be (in places) under water. This was the case with almost everything but the line itself on the way to Orange. The day proved splendid, and its brilliancy only lighted up the desolation. Farmhouses and cottages were up to their middle in the yellow liquidity; haystacks looked like dull little islands; windows and doors gaped open, without faces; and interruption and flight were represented in the scene. It was brought home to me that the populations rurales have many different ways of suffering, and my heart glowed with a grateful sense of cockneyism. ...
— A Little Tour in France • Henry James


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