liquidity

English

Etymology

From liquid +‎ -ity, from Latin liquiditas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪkˈwɪdəti/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

liquidity (countable and uncountable, plural liquidities)

1. (finance) The degree of which something is in high supply and demand, making it easily convertible to cash.
2. (uncountable) The state or property of being liquid.
3. (economics, countable) 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.

   Some stocks are traded so rarely that they lack liquidity.

4. (finance) Availability of cash over short term: ability to service short-term debt.
   • 2011 August 7, Paul Krugman, “A Self-Fulfilling Euro Crisis? (Wonkish)”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     This is often phrased in terms of whether they are facing liquidity or solvency problems; but I think it’s better phrased in terms of the possibility of self-fulfilling crises, a la Obstfeld.

Antonyms

• illiquidity

Derived terms

• funding liquidity risk
• liquidity event
• liquidity pool
• liquidity provider
• liquidity smile
• liquidity trap

 

Related terms

• liquid
• liquidate
• liquidation
• liquidator
• liquidizer
• liquor

 

Translations

state of being liquid

• Bulgarian: течно състояние n (tečno sǎstojanie)
• Catalan: liquiditat f
• Czech: tekutost f
• Finnish: nestemäisyys, likvidiys
• German: Flüssigsein n
• Greek: ρευστότητα (el) f (refstótita)
• Indonesian: likuiditas (id)
• Irish: leachtacht f
• Polish: płynność (pl) f
• Portuguese: liquidez (pt) f
• Romanian: lichiditate (ro) f
• Spanish: liquidez f
• Swedish: flytande tillstånd n
• Tagalog: pagka-danum

property of being able to be easily converted into cash

• Armenian: իրացվելիություն (hy) (iracʻveliutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: ликвидност f (likvidnost)
• Catalan: liquiditat f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 流動性 / 流动性 (zh) (liúdòngxìng)

• Czech: likvidita (cs) f
• Danish: likviditet c
• Esperanto: likvidebleco
• Finnish: likvidiys
• German: Liquidität (de) f, Verfügbarkeit (de) f
• Greek: ρευστότητα (el) f (refstótita)
• Irish: leachtacht f
• Italian: liquidità (it) f
• Japanese: 流動性 (りゅうどうせい, ryūdōsei)
• Kazakh: өтімділік (ötımdılık)
• Korean: 환금성 (hwan'geumseong)
• Latin: liquiditas f
• Polish: płynność (pl) f
• Russian: ликви́дность (ru) f (likvídnostʹ)
• Swedish: likviditet (sv) c

finance: availability of cash over short term

• Armenian: իրացվելիություն (hy) (iracʻveliutʻyun)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: likvidita (cs) f
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: maksuvalmius (fi), likviditeetti (fi)
• German: Zahlungsbereitschaft (de) f
• Greek: ρευστότητα (el) f (refstótita)
• Indonesian: likuiditas (id)
• Irish: leachtacht f
• Italian: liquidità (it) f
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: płynność (pl) f
• Russian: ликви́дность (ru) f (likvídnostʹ)
• Swedish: likviditet (sv) c