4. fleeting, passing, flitting, flying, unenduring, here today-gone tomorrow; transient, transitory, temporary, impermanent; brief, short-lived, momentary; ephemeral, evanescent, vanishing,
volatility, n. 1. vaporability, vaporizability, evap-orability; evaporableness, vaporousness, vaporiness, vaporosity; gaseousness.
2. explosiveness, fieriness, tension.
3. flightiness, changefulness, capriciousness, whimsicality, impulsiveness, fickleness, inconstancy, moon-ishness, changeableness, variability; mercurialness, unsteadiness, instability; giddiness, irregularity, fitfulness, unevenness.
4. transience, transitoriness, temporariness, impermanence; briefness, shortness, momentariness; evanescence, ephemerality, frailty, caducity.
volition, n. choice, option; discretion, will, free will; determination, Psychol, conation, intent, resolution, decision; preference, wish, desire, taste, pleasure, velleity.
volley, n. 1. barrage, bombardment, cannonade, shelling, battery, broadside, enfilade, cross fire, assault, salvo, fusillade; barrier of fire, wall of fire.
2. report, boom, bang, crack, crash, rumble, echo, reverberation, noise, sound; discharge, explosion, detonation, fulmination; shot, blast, gunfire, backfire, thunderclap; outbreak, storm, shower, emission,
volubility, n. talkativeness, overtalkativeness, garrulity, garrulousness, glibness, Inf. gabbiness, loose tongue, Inf. gift of gab, Inf. windiness, Inf. gassiness, Inf. big mouth; verbosity, wordiness, verbality, verbalism, verbiage, prolixity, prolixness, loquacity, loquaciousness, long-windedness, longiloquence, multi-loquence; magniloquence, grandiloquence, orotundity; fluency, eloquence; discursiveness, digressiveness, circumlocution, ambagiousness, circuitousness, roundaboutness; bravado, braggadocio, gasconade, boasting, SI. hot air, SI. gas.
voluble, adj. talkative, talky, loquacious, garrulous, multiloquous, long-tongued, Inf. big-mouthed, SI. all jaw; fluent, glib, Inf. blessed with or possessed of the gift of gab; conversational, chatty, gabby, gossipy, SI. blabby, SI. gassy, SI. windy; wordy, verbose, prolix, long-winded, longiloquent; effusive, gushy, profuse, exuberant, unrestrained; discursive, digressive, rambling, maundering; circumlocutory, ambagious, circuitous, roundabout; plethoric, turgid, overblown, inflated, flatulent, tumid, swollen.
volume, n. 1. tome, book, work, publication, opus.
2. bulk, measure, measurement, amplitude, dimensions, size, capacity; bigness, vastness.
3. mass, abundance, bounty, plenty; quantity, profusion, Inf. raft, storm, shower, ocean, sea, world.
4. total, sum, sum total; whole, totality, entirety, aggregate; gross, net, summation; number, amount, gross amount, SI. whole bit.
5. loudness, sound, register, amplification,
voluminous, adj. 1. large, spacious, roomy, capacious, commodious; broad, expansive, wide, extensive, widespread; vast, immense, amplitudinous; huge, big, great, massive, gigantic, tremendous, mammoth, colossal, giant, elephantine, monstrous, stupendous.
2. plentiful, plenteous, plenitudinous, bountiful, bounteous, abundant, fat, copious; immeasurable, unmeasured, inexhaustible, bottomless; much, many, numerous; in quantity, in plenty, Inf. aplenty, Inf. galore.
3. profuse, abounding, overflowing, overspilling, running over, exuberant, superabundant; rich, lavish, luxuriant, liberal, handsome.