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Volatility vs Ephemerality - What's the difference?

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Volatility is a synonym of ephemerality.


As nouns the difference between volatility and ephemerality

is that volatility is the state of being volatile while ephemerality is (uncountable) the state or condition of being ephemeral; transience.

volatility

English

Noun

(wikipedia volatility) (-)
  • 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

    • ephemerality

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or condition of being ephemeral; transience.
  • (countable) Something that is ephemeral.
  • * 1961 , , The City in History , Harcourt, Brace & World, p. 242:
    • So, too, the multiplication of bathrooms and the over-expenditure on broadly paved motor roads, and above all, the massive collective concentration on glib ephemeralities of all kinds, performed with supreme technical audacity.

    Synonyms

    * (state or condition of being ephemeral) ** ephemeralness ** evanescence ** impermanence ** transience / transiency ** volatility