Definition for Flightiness:

• the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment; " I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory"

Synonyms for Flightiness:

• n.

  •arbitrariness (noun)
  • arbitrariness.
  •caprice (noun)
  • fancy,
  • fitfulness,
  • whimsy,
  • vacillation,
  • whim,
  • vagary,
  • sporadicalness,
  • changeability,
  • fluctuation.
  •capriciousness (noun)
  • capriciousness.
  •fickleness (noun)
  • malleability,
  • plasticity,
  • mutation,
  • permutability,
  • inconstancy,
  • pliancy,
  • unreliability,
  • Modifiability.
  •flightiness (noun)
  • whimsey.
  •flippancy (noun)
  • cockinesses,
  • dis respectfulness,
  • dis-respectfulness,
  • disrespectfulnesses,
  • archnesses,
  • dis respectfulnesses,
  • dis-respectfulnesses.
  •frivolity (noun)
  • dallyings,
  • frivolousnesses,
  • flummeries,
  • fribbles,
  • coquettings,
  • shallownesses,
  • toyings,
  • triflings.
  •giddiness (noun)
  • eccentricity,
  • irresponsibility,
  • variability,
  • lightheadedness,
  • dizziness,
  • mercurialness.
  •hooey (noun)
  • JA,
  • Jas,
  • bunkum.
  •precariousness (noun)
  • pre cariousness,
  • pre-cariousness,
  • pre cariousnesses,
  • pre-cariousnesses.
  •ricketiness (noun)
  • wobblinesses.
  •shakiness (noun)
  • shakiness.
  •unstableness (noun)
  • unsteadiness.
  •unsteadiness (noun)
  • un steadiness,
  • un-steadinesses,
  • un steadinesses,
  • un-steadiness.
  •unsureness (noun)
  • un sureness,
  • un surenesses,
  • un-surenesses,
  • un-sureness.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • archness,
  • banana,
  • cockiness,
  • flippancy,
  • flummery,
  • frivolity,
  • frivolousness,
  • hooey,
  • instability,
  • jest,
  • jive,
  • levity,
  • nonsense,
  • puerility,
  • ricketiness,
  • sauciness,
  • scribble,
  • senselessness,
  • shallowness,
  • silliness,
  • superficiality,
  • tommyrot,
  • trifling,
  • unstableness,
  • whimsicality,
  • Fribble,
  • Puerilities,
  • whimsicalities,
  • disrespectfulness,
  • wobbliness,
  • superficialities,
  • jives,
  • rantings.

Antonyms for Flightiness:

• n.

  • irresponsibility
    seriousness, responsibility.
  • Other antonyms:
    confidence, self-assurance, ease, sadness, self-possession, mopes, earnestness, calmness, sureness, control, depression, gloom, equanimity, dispiritedness, heartsickness, Collectedness, moroseness, sullenness, poise, composure, melancholy, tranquillity, imperturbability, gloominess, Solemnness, aplomb, Tranquilness, soberness, joylessness, gravity, self-confidence, easiness, unhappiness, calm, solemnity, coolness, dejection, downheartedness, repose, self-control, equilibrium, despondency.

Flightiness Sentence Examples:

• The girl, unfortunately, springs from a family in whose blood flightiness may be said to have run from the very beginning.

• He had thought that such persons were necessarily stolid and comfortable persons, believing in committees and correspondence, fond of food and drink, careful of their balance at the bank, and rather disgusted at than tolerant of the irrepressible levity and flightiness of youth.