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Grammar : Noun

Spell : flahy-tee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈflaɪ ti

Definition of flightiness

Origin : 1550s, "swift," later (1768) "fickle or frivolous," originally of skittish horses; from flight (n.1) + -y (2). Related: Flightiness.

noun irresponsibility

Example sentences :

Her flightiness or inconstancy was of the most dangerous kind.
Extract from : « The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete » by Duc de Saint-Simon

They were perplexed at his 'flightiness'—wanted him to enter the loco.
Extract from : « The Life of James McNeill Whistler » by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

That was well enough for her in her days of flightiness and frivolity.
Extract from : « Famous Affinities of History, Vol 1-4, Complete » by Lyndon Orr

Alice is a lovely girl; just the equable temperament to balance his flightiness.
Extract from : « Alone » by Marion Harland

Her flightiness would have driven any man crazy who had an opinion of his own.
Extract from : « The Newcomes » by William Makepeace Thackeray

Three disrespectful sisters: importunity, frivolity, flightiness.
Extract from : « Ancient Irish Poetry » by Various

I do not write it from flightiness, but from thoughtfulness.
Extract from : « The Life of George Borrow » by Herbert Jenkins

Three irreverent sisters: importunity, frivolity, flightiness.
Extract from : « The Triads of Ireland » by Kuno Meyer

There is but one thing I could wish otherwise in them, and that is a certain tendency to flightiness.
Extract from : « Charlotte Bront » by T. Wemyss Reid

And when she would not give it him, in his flightiness he seized the pinjara, and flew up to heaven with it in the form of a bird.
Extract from : « The Kath Sarit Sgara » by Somadeva Bhatta

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