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From Taber's Medical Dictionary: "Labile": Not fixed, unsteady; easily disarranged; rapidly shifting and changing emotions. "Emotional lability": Excessive emotional reactivity associated with frequent changes or swings in emotions and mood. I believe, in psychiatric jargon, it also means exaggerated response to emotional stimuli, for example crying over spilled milk. The opposite condition is called "flattening" and occurs in schizophrenics, who are said to be emotionally "blunted". Tch! Ain't there no philologists in this crowd? Cheers, Joe -- J. R. Bruman (818) 789-3694 3527 Cody Road Sherman Oaks, CA 91403-5013