MUTABILITY - 6 definitions found
mutability n 1: the quality of being capable of mutation [syn: mutability, mutableness] [ant: fixity, immutability, immutableness] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) mutability noun see mutable Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Mutability \Mu`ta*bil"i*ty\, n. [L. mutabilitas: cf. F. mutabilit['e].] The quality of being mutable, or subject to change or alteration, either in form, state, or essential character; susceptibility of change; changeableness; inconstancy; variation. Plato confessed that the heavens and the frame of the world are corporeal, and therefore subject to mutability. --Stillingfleet. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms mutability n. 1. Changeableness, mutableness, variableness. 2. Instability, fickleness, vacillation, inconstancy. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 72 Moby Thesaurus words for "mutability": adaptability, adjustability, alterability, caducity, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, changefulness, choppiness, corruptibility, dappleness, death, deviation, difference, differentiation, disorder, divarication, divergence, diversification, ephemerality, ephemeralness, evanescence, finitude, fleetingness, flexibility, fluidity, fugacity, impermanence, impermanency, inconsistency, inconstancy, inequality, instability, irregularity, jerkiness, malleability, mercuriality, mobility, modifiability, momentariness, mortality, motleyness, movability, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, perishability, permutability, plasticity, pluralism, raggedness, resilience, rubberiness, suppleness, transience, transiency, transientness, transitoriness, unconformism, unconformity, unevenness, unorthodoxy, unsteadiness, variability, variation, variegation, variety, variousness, versatility, volatility, wavering |
|
