liquidity

Plural: liquidities

Noun

• the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility
• the property of flowing easily
• being in cash or easily convertible to cash; debt paying ability
• The degree of which something is in high supply and demand, making it easily convertible to cash.
• The state or property of being liquid.
• An asset's property of being able to be sold without affecting its value; the degree to which it can be easily converted into cash.
• Availability of cash over short term: ability to service short-term debt.

Examples

• Some stocks are traded so rarely that they lack liquidity.

Synonyms

fluidity, fluidness, liquid, liquid state, liquidness, runniness

Antonyms

illiquidity

Related Words

liquid, liquidate, liquidation, liquidator, liquidizer, liquor