flightiness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment
    arbitrariness; whimsy; whimsicality; capriciousness; whimsey.
    • I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory

WordNet


Flight"i*ness noun
Definitions
  1. The state or quality of being flighty.
    The flightness of her temper. Hawthorne.
    Syn. -- Levity; giddiness; volatility; lightness; wildness; eccentricity. See Levity.

Webster 1913