mutability

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: mu=ta=bil=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

mutability, n. [L. mutabilitas: cf. F. mutabilité.].

 The quality of being mutable, or subject to change or alteration, either in form, state, or essential character; susceptibility of change; changeableness; inconstancy; variation.  [1913 Webster]
"Plato confessed that the heavens and the frame of the world are corporeal, and therefore subject to mutability."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

mutability

Changeableness

N changeableness, mutability, inconstancy, versatility, mobility, instability, unstable equilibrium, vacillation, fluctuation, vicissitude, alternation, restlessness, fidgets, disquiet, disquietude, inquietude, unrest, agitation, moon, Proteus, chameleon, quicksilver, shifting sands, weathercock, harlequin, Cynthia of the minute, April showers, wheel of Fortune, transientness, changeable, changeful, changing, mutable, variable, checkered, ever changing, protean, proteiform, versatile, unstaid, inconstant, unsteady, unstable, unfixed, unsettled, fluctuating, restless, agitated, erratic, fickle, irresolute, capricious, touch and go, inconsonant, fitful, spasmodic, vibratory, vagrant, wayward, desultory, afloat, alternating, alterable, plastic, mobile, transient, wavering, seesaw, off and on, a rolling stone gathers no moss, pictra mossa non fa muschis, honores mutant mores, varium et mutabile semper femina.