Volatility (finance)
WordNet
noun
(1) Being easily excited
(2) The trait of being unpredictably irresolute
"The volatility of the market drove many investors away"
(3) The property of changing readily from a solid or liquid to a vapor
WiktionaryText
Noun
- The state of being volatile
- The state of having a low boiling point and evaporating readily
- The state of not retaining data in the absence of power
- The state of being able to fly
- The state of being unpredictable
- (Financial markets, countable, plural volatilities) A quantification of the degree of uncertainty about the future price of a commodity, share, or other financial product