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English Dictionary: flightiness by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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"
    Synonym(s): flightiness, arbitrariness, whimsicality, whimsy, whimsey, capriciousness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Flightiness \Flight"i*ness\, n.
      The state or quality of being flighty.
  
               The flightness of her temper.                  --Hawthorne.
  
      Syn: Levity; giddiness; volatility; lightness; wildness;
               eccentricity. See {Levity}.
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