Mutability
[,mjʊtə'bɪləti]
Definition
(n.) The quality of being mutable, or subject to change or alteration, either in form, state, or essential character; susceptibility of change; changeableness; inconstancy; variation.
Editor: Priscilla
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Changeableness, mutableness, inconstancy, variableness.[2]. Instability, fickleness, vacillation.
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Examples
- I am ruminating,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'on the strange mutability of human affairs. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but mutability! Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Why, it may be asked, until recently did nearly all the most eminent living naturalists and geologists disbelieve in the mutability of species? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- My fortunes have been, from the beginning, an exemplification of the power that mutability may possess over the varied tenor of man's life. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Edited by Benson