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Meaning of MUTABILITY

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  the quality of being capable of mutation
 
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 Synonyms: mutableness
 
 Antonyms: fixity, immutability, immutableness
 
 See Also: alterability, changeability, changeableness, vicissitude

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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.
 
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 Related Terms: 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
 

 

 

 

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