Dictionary Definition
volatility
Noun
1 the property of changing readily from a solid
or liquid to a vapor
2 the trait of being unpredictably irresolute;
"the volatility of the market drove many investors away" [syn:
unpredictability]
3 being easily excited [syn: excitability, excitableness]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- The state of being volatile
- The state of having a low boiling point and evaporating readily
- The state of not retaining data in the absence of power
- The state of being able to fly
- The state of being unpredictable
- (Financial markets, countable, plural volatilities) A quantification of the degree of uncertainty about the future price of a commodity, share, or other financial product
Translations
state of being volatile
state of having a low boiling point
- Czech: prchavost
- German: Volatilität , Flüchtigkeit
computing: state of not retaining data
state of being able to fly
state of being unpredictable
financial markets: quantification of the degree
of uncertainty about the future price
- German: Volatilität
- Italian: volatilità (all senses)
Extensive Definition
Volatility is the measure of the state of
instability.
- For volatility in chemistry, see Volatility (chemistry)
- For volatility in finance, see Volatility (finance)
- For the measure comparing the vapor pressures of the components in a liquid mixture of chemicals, see Relative volatility.
See also
volatility in Czech: Volatilita
volatility in German: Volatilität
volatility in Spanish: Volatilidad
volatility in French: Volatilité
volatility in Norwegian: Volatilitet
volatility in Russian: Волатильность
volatility in Finnish: Volatiliteetti
volatility in Swedish: Volatilitet
volatility in Chinese: 波动性
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
airiness, animation, ascent, brainlessness, bubbliness, buoyancy, caducity, changeability, changeableness, coquettishness, corruptibility, daintiness, death, delicacy, downiness, empty-headedness,
ephemerality,
ephemeralness,
ethereality,
evanescence,
evaporability,
faddishness,
faddism, fickleness, finitude, fleetingness, flightiness, flippancy, floatability, fluffiness, foaminess, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, frothiness, fugacity, gentleness, giddiness, gossameriness, impermanence, impermanency, inconstancy, instability, lack of depth,
lack of weight, levitation, levity, lightness, mercuriality, mercurialness, momentariness, mortality, mutability, perishability,
shallow-wittedness, shallowness, skittishness, softness, sprightliness, superficiality, tenderness, thinness, thoughtlessness,
transience, transiency, transientness, transitoriness, undependability,
unheaviness,
unpredictability,
unprofoundness,
unprofundity,
unreliability,
vaporability,
vaporizability,
variability,
weightlessness,
witlessness,
yeastiness