Vagary vs Volatility - What's the difference?
vagary | volatility |
An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action.
* 1871 , , At Last: A Christmas In The West Indies , ch. 8:
An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice or whim.
* 1905 , , War of the Classes , Preface:
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
As nouns the difference between vagary and volatility
is that vagary is an erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action while volatility is the state of being volatile.vagary
English
Noun
(vagaries)- It now turns out that the Pitch Lake, like most other things, owes its appearance on the surface to no convulsion or vagary at all, but to a most slow, orderly, and respectable process of nature, by which buried vegetable matter, which would have become peat, and finally brown coal, in a temperate climate, becomes, under the hot tropic soil, asphalt and oil.
- And then came the day when my socialism grew respectable,—still a vagary of youth, it was held, but romantically respectable.
