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flitty | flittiness |

As an adjective flitty

is (archaic) unstable, fluttering.

As a noun flittiness is

(obsolete|rare) the quality of being flitty; unsteadiness.

flitty

English

Adjective

(er)
  • (archaic) unstable, fluttering
  • Ostentatiously effeminate
  • * {{quote-news, year=1995, date=September 8, author=Peter Margasak, title=Edwyn Collins, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=His once flitty warble has deepened into a quavery David Bowie/Iggy Pop croon, and it perfectly suits the new record's mix of quasi soul and somber guitar pop. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1999, date=December 24, author=Albert Williams, title=Lean and Mean, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=In each scenario, the mother worries whether her flitty son (Garcia) will ever marry. " }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2001, date=February 23, author=Albert Williams, title=Springtime for Mel Brooks, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Some observers may be taken aback by Brooks's treatment of homosexuality: while the subject was only a side theme in the movie, here it's placed front and center in the character of Roger and his flitty "common-law assistant," Carmen Ghia. }}

    Synonyms

    (ostentatiously homosexual)

    References

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    flittiness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete, rare) The quality of being flitty; unsteadiness.
  • * Bishop Ezekiel Hopkins
    • had we but the same delight in heavenly objects, did we but receive the truth in the love of it, and mingle it with faith in the hearing, this would fix that volatileness and flittiness of our memories, and make every truth as indelible, as it is necessary.