Meaning of INCONSTANCY
| Pronunciation: | | `ink'ânstunsee
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- [n] the quality of being changeable and variable
- [n] unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous
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| | Synonyms: | | changefulness, faithlessness, falseness, fickleness |
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| | Antonyms: | | constancy, stability | | |
| | See Also: | | capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, infidelity, unfaithfulness, unpredictability | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In*con"stan*cy\, n. [L. inconstantia.]
The quality or state of being inconstant; want of constancy;
mutability; fickleness; variableness.
For unto knight there was no greater shame, Than
lightness and inconstancie in love. --Spenser.
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| | Related Terms: | | ambitendency, ambivalence, arrhythmia, bad faith, barratry, breach of faith, breach of promise, breach of trust, brokenness, capriciousness, change of mind, changeability, changeableness, choppiness, coquettishness, dappleness, dereliction, desultoriness, deviability, deviation, difference, differentiation, disaffection, disconnectedness, discontinuity, disloyalty, disorder, divarication, divergence, diversification, double-mindedness, dubiety, dubiousness, eccentricity, erraticism, erraticness, faddishness, faddism, faithlessness, falseness, falsity, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fibrillation, fickleness, fitfulness, fits and starts, flightiness, fluctuation, freakishness, frivolousness, impulsiveness, inconsistency, indecision, indecisiveness, inequality, infidelity, infirmity of purpose, instability, intermittence, irregularity, irresolution, jerkiness, levity, lightness, mala fides, mercuriality, mercurialness, moodiness, motleyness, mugwumpery, mugwumpism, mutability, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, patchiness, pluralism, Punic faith, raggedness, recreancy, restlessness, roughness, second thoughts, shiftiness, skittishness, spasticity, sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger, tergiversation, trothlessness, uncertainty, unconformism, unconformity, undecidedness, undependability, undeterminedness, unevenness, unfaith, unfaithfulness, unfixedness, unloyalty, unmethodicalness, unorthodoxy, unpredictability, unreliability, unsettledness, unsettlement, unstableness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, unsystematicness, untrueness, variability, variation, variegation, variety, variousness, versatility, volatility, wantonness, wavering, waywardness, whimsicality, wobble |
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