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fluidity

UK/fluːˈɪd.ə.ti/US/fluˈɪd.ə.ti/
nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,162 of 15,258leans written

Fluidity is smoothness with no break between movements. The fluidity of the dance, move with fluidity, lose fluidity.

In dance it is the hardest thing to teach, because it comes from what happens between the positions rather than from the positions themselves. In physics fluidity is the opposite of viscosity — how easily something flows.

Definitions of fluidity

  1. 1nounfluiditySmoothness with no break between movements.C1

    “The dancer moved with such fluidity that she seemed to float across the stage.”

fluidity is a quality of movement.

Where it comes from

  1. French

    fluidité

  2. English, today

    fluidity

Borrowed from French fluidité.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Dance

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fluidity in the wild

  • The term is often used in a derogatory manner, but it can also be used in a more positive way, especially when considering the fluidity of gender roles.

    Girly girl

  • In biology, membrane fluidity refers to the viscosity of the lipid bilayer of a cell membrane or a synthetic lipid membrane.

    Membrane fluidity

  • Saturated fatty acids have no double bonds in their hydrocarbon chains, which decreases fluidity.

    Membrane fluidity

  • Sexual fluidity is one or more changes in sexuality or sexual identity (sometimes known as sexual orientation identity).

    Sexual fluidity

  • Use of the term sexual fluidity has been attributed to psychologist Lisa M.

    Sexual fluidity

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.