mutability

English

Etymology

mutable +‎ -ity

Noun

mutability (countable and uncountable, plural mutabilities)

The quality or state of being mutable.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, London: A[ndrew] Millar, OCLC 928184292:
  
  He did indeed account somewhat unfairly for this sudden change; for besides some hard and unjust surmises concerning female fickleness and mutability, he began to suspect that he owed this want of civility to his want of horses […]
- Washington Irving
  There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature.

Translations

state or quality of being mutable

Finnish: muuttuvuus
Italian: mutevolezza f

Manx: yn-arreeaght f
Spanish: mutabilidad f

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