Concept cluster: Positive qualities > Unpredictability or volatility
adj
Impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim.
n
A person with inconstant behavior; one able to quickly adjust to new circumstances.
v
(intransitive, simile) To change quickly, inevitably, and without a rationale.
adj
Subject to sudden or frequent changes.
adj
(rare) Changing frequently; very susceptible to change
adj
(archaic, rare) Changeable, fickle, inconstant, wavering.
n
(informal) liability to change; variability
adj
(mathematics) Highly sensitive to starting conditions, so that a small change to them may yield a very different outcome.
adj
(figuratively) Changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures.
adj
(obsolete) Making choices; fickle.
n
Frequent change or alteration, especially where this is seen as unnecessary or disruptive.
adj
(of wind) Shifting, variable
adj
(informal) prone to, or caused by, chopping and changing; changeable; unpredictable; fickle; inconsistent; haphazard; disjointed
adj
fluctuating simultaneously with another
n
The simultaneous fluctuation of two or more things (typically things that are causally related)
n
(economics) The related volatility of two or more financial instruments.
adj
Synonym of dilatory
adj
(obsolete) Varied in appearance, variegated
n
An equal amount of deceleration
adj
Unsteady, random; prone to unexpected changes; not consistent.
adj
Obsolete form of erratic. [Unsteady, random; prone to unexpected changes; not consistent.]
adj
Always varying.
adj
Frequently or constantly changing.
adj
Constantly shifting or changing.
adj
(of dyes or colours) Not running or fading when subjected to detrimental conditions such as wetness or intense light; permanent.
adj
(figuratively) Changeable.
adj
(by extension) Characterized by sudden bursts of activity with periods of inactivity in between; intermittent, irregular, unsteady.
n
A vote held by a floating voter, and therefore unpredictable.
n
The capacity or ability to fluctuate.
adj
Able or liable to fluctuate.
n
Quality of being fluctuant.
adj
That fluctuates, or causes fluctuation
adj
Of, pertaining to, or resulting from fluctuation(s)
n
One who or that which fluctuates.
adj
(archaic) fluctuating
adj
unstable, prone to rapid and unpredictable changes
adj
Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fluxion or fluxions; variable; inconstant.
adj
Capricious, unpredictable.
n
Transience.
adj
Having a variable magnitude
n
(engineering) Fluctuating around a central value without stabilizing.
adj
Not constant; wavering.
n
(physics, countable) A state that is not in equilibrium, or in which a small change has a large irreversible effect.
adj
Exhibiting instability; unstable
n
(countable) A susceptibility to change; instability.
adj
(dated) Easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile.
adj
(comparable) Having a lively or volatile character; animated, changeable, quick-witted.
adj
Obsolete spelling of mercurial [(comparable) Having a lively or volatile character; animated, changeable, quick-witted.]
adj
Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
adj
Variable as the moon; fickle; flighty; capricious.
n
Something mutable; a variable or value that can change.
adj
Erratic and unpredictable; tending to jump back and forth.
adj
Vacillating, undecided, intermittent.
n
(figuratively) an extraneous agent or vehicle which, intentionally otherwise, makes something opaque
n
Excessive or overly frequent change; fickleness
adj
Of, pertaining to, or causing overstability
adj
Not constant or continuous; intermittent or uneven.
n
(countable, uncountable) pernio (chilblain).
adj
Unpredictable, erratic or fickle; mercurial.
adj
(chemistry) that readily takes part in reactions
adj
Seemingly randomly distributed.
n
Any device with inner workings obscured.
adv
In a shifting manner.
n
The quality of being shifting.
adj
Subject to frequent changes in direction.
adj
Unstable; changeable; inconstant.
adj
Erratic or unsustained.
adj
(chiefly of a person, usually Canada, US) Having alternating periods of good and bad performances; inconsistent.
adj
Subject to changing and unpredictable emotional states; moody, capricious.
adj
Subject to change over time.
adj
(photography) of a film that has had insufficient development before being fixed
n
A secondary or subconscious feeling.
adj
Having a strong tendency to change.
adj
Inconstant in purpose, or volatile in behavior.
adj
Liable to vacillate.
adj
Subject to vagaries; erratic.
adj
vagarious; erratic or changeable
adj
(biology) Free to move about.
n
Something that is variable.
adj
Characterised or marked by varying; various
adj
Changeable or inconstant.
adj
(rare) changeable; protean; having a form, nature or appearance that changes often
n
(obsolete) inconstancy, changeability
n
(often in the plural) A change, especially in one's life or fortunes.
adj
(rare) pertaining to change, alteration, or mutation.
adj
Characterized by or filled with vicissitudes.
adj
Fickle, capricious, reckless.
n
(uncountable) The state of being able to fly.
n
(finance) The system by which an individual can protect their assets in the event of market unpredictability immediately following retirement.
adj
(obsolete) volatilizable
adj
(business) Acronym of volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. [(physics) Evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.]
adj
Fickle or changeable in one's views.
adj
Subject to frequent changes (of direction or fortune, for example).

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