Noun: liquidity li'kwi-di-tee
- The property of flowing easily
"The liquidity of mercury makes it difficult to contain";
- fluidity, fluidness, liquidness, runniness
- The state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility
"Mercury's liquidity makes it dangerous to handle";
- liquid, liquidness, liquid state
- Being in cash or easily convertible to cash; debt paying ability
"The company's high liquidity allowed it to weather the economic downturn"
Derived forms: liquidities
Type of: exchangeability, fungibility, interchangeability, interchangeableness, state, state of matter, thinness
Encyclopedia: Liquidity