Flightiness

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state of being flighty; capriciousness; volatility; specifically, slight delirium or mental aberration.
  • noun. Synonyms Lightness, Frivolity, etc. (see levity); giddiness, caprice.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The state or quality of being flighty.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The quality of being flighty.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment
  • Word Usage
    "Right mindfulness serves as an antidote to rid the mind forever of the auxiliary disturbing emotions and attitudes (nye-nyon), such as flightiness of mind and mental dullness, that an accustoming pathway mind gets rid of, namely the automatically arising ones."
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