changeableness love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being changeable; fickleness; inconstancy; instability; mutability.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being changeable; fickleness; inconstancy; mutability.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun the condition of being changeable
  • noun the condition of being able to suffer some changes

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change

Etymologies

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changeable +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • When Bashti promised plenty of fresh recruits, Van Horn, used to the changeableness of the savage mind, urged signing them up right away.

    CHAPTER XI 2010

  • The fact is that Pudentilla, knowing your changeableness and unreliability no less than your shamelessness and mendacity, rather than forward the letter preferred to keep it as clear evidence of your intentions.

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • Aquinas says that between the unqualified changelessness of God's eternity and the qualified changeableness of corporeal existence, there is the qualified immutability of angelic being.

    Process Theism Viney, Donald 2008

  • The fact is that Pudentilla, knowing your changeableness and unreliability no less than your shamelessness and mendacity, rather than forward the letter preferred to keep it as clear evidence of your intentions.

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • For if innocence cannot attract common civility, what must guilt expect, when novelty has ceased to have its charms, and changeableness had taken place of it?

    Pamela 2006

  • And, perhaps, such is the vanity, as well as changeableness, of human estates, in their turns set up for pride of family, and despise the others!

    Pamela 2006

  • Every man of observation had seen in the democratic branches of the State Legislatures, precipitation—in Congress changeableness, in every department excesses against personal liberty private property & personal safety.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Founders on Democratic Majoritarianism: 2004

  • See how soon everything is forgotten, and look at the chaos of infinite time on each side of the present, and the emptiness of applause, and the changeableness and want of judgement in those who pretend to give praise, and the narrowness of the space within which it is circumscribed, and be quiet at last.

    The Meditations 2004

  • But Crassus is very generally blamed for his changeableness in his friendships and enmities, for his unfaithfulness, and his mean and underhand proceedings; since he himself could not deny that to compass the consulship, he hired men to lay violent hands upon Domitius and

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.

    Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

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