changefulnessn.
/ˈtʃeɪn(d)ʒf(ᵿ)lnəs/, U.S. /ˈtʃeɪndʒf(ə)lnəs/ The state or quality of being changeful, varying, or inconstant.
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the world > time > change > changeableness > [noun]
unstablenessc1340
varyingc1380
uncertaintyc1384
brotelnessc1386
were1390
instabilityc1422
bricklenessa1425
changeability?a1425
changeableness1447
vertibility1447
mutability?a1475
variableness?a1475
inconstance1509
mutationa1542
fickleness1548
variety1548
unconstancy1563
mobility1567
unstability1572
vicissitude1576
variousness1607
inconstancy1613
slipperinessa1618
alterableness1633
versatilousness1640
bottomlessness1642
lability1651
brittlety1652
versatileness1654
fluctuancy1659
fugitivenessa1661
alterability1661
permutability1662
unfixedness1668
mutablenessa1677
flittingnessa1680
frailness1687
flittiness1692
versability1721
plasticity1727
variability1771
unestablishment1776
fluctuabilitya1786
changefulness1791
unsettledness1799
versatility1802
harlequinism1808
fluidity1824
fitfulness1825
sensitiveness1825
insubstantiality1848
contingency1858
rootlessness1859
shiftingness1866
ficklety1888
variancy1888
impredicability1906
proteanism1909
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun]
unsteadfastnessa1300
falsenessc1330
unstablenessc1380
varyingc1380
inconstancec1386
variance1390
geriness1412
instabilityc1422
changeability?a1425
mutabilitya1425
changec1425
changeableness1447
unconstancec1449
unstabilitya1470
mutableness1481
unsureness1481
instableness1483
variation1509
inconstancy1526
shittleness1530
fickleness1548
unconstancy1548
unconstantness1551
inconstantness?a1562
pliableness1562
fast and loose1575
volubility1603
levity1604
unconstability1611
flexibleness1623
vagrancy1642
self-inconsistency1655
inconsistency1665
flittingnessa1680
easiness1705
inconsistence1713
versatility1755
contrariety1762
vibration1785
changefulness1791
girouettism1825
pirouettism1839
weathercockism1843
pirouettiveness1844
volatileness1849
unfixity1856
ficklety1888
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1777 II. 169 I complained of a wretched changefulness, so that I could not preserve..the same views.
a1853 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1858) 3rd Ser. xvii. 256 A day was coming when..this sad world was to put off for ever its changefulness.
1874 W. Pater in Fortn. Rev. 1 Nov. 655 Those strangely conceived women..who unite to a seductive sweetness, something of a dangerous and tigerlike changefulness of feeling.
1924 Amer. Mercury Sept. 6/1 English politics were..proverbial for turbulence and changefulness.
2004 Amer. Poetry Rev. Sept. 43/1 No poet will ever capture the changefulness of being.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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