Levity vs Volatility - What's the difference?
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Lightness of manner or speech, frivolity.
(obsolete) Lack of steadiness.
The state or quality of being light, buoyancy.
* F. Scott Fitzgerald
* Most of the confidences were unsought - frequently I had feigned sleep, preoccupation or a hostile levity...
* Robert Montgomery Bird:
* 1869 Mary Somerville, On Molecular and Microscopic Science 1.1.12:
(countable) A lighthearted or frivolous act.
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The state of being volatile
# The state of having a low boiling point and evaporating readily
# (computing) 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
Levity is a related term of volatility.
As nouns the difference between levity and volatility
is that levity is lightness of manner or speech, frivolity while volatility is the state of being volatile.levity
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Hydrogen ... rises in the air on account of its levity .