mutability
NounSynonyms:
mutableness
Open English WordNet
Noun (1)
- the quality of being capable of mutationSynonyms: mutablenessOpposite immutablenessType of changeableness, changeabilityKinds alterability, vicissitude
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Mu′ta·bil′i·ty noun
Origin: 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.
Plato confessed that the heavens and the frame of the world are corporeal, and therefore subject to mutability.— Stillingfleet.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54