English Dictionary

CHANGEABILITY

Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

 Dictionary entry overview: What does changeability mean? 

CHANGEABILITY (noun)
  The noun CHANGEABILITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to changeplay

  Familiarity information: CHANGEABILITY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHANGEABILITY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

changeability; changeableness

Context example:

the changeableness of the weather

Hypernyms ("changeability" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Attribute:

changeable; changeful (such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change)

unchangeable (not changeable or subject to change)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "changeability"):

commutability; transmutability (the quality of being commutable)

fluidity; fluidness (a changeable quality)

reversibility (the quality of being reversible in either direction)

shiftiness (the quality of being changeable in direction)

changefulness; inconstancy (the quality of being changeable and variable)

variability; variableness; variance (the quality of being subject to variation)

exchangeability; fungibility; interchangeability; interchangeableness (the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange)

progressiveness; progressivity (advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods)

mutability; mutableness (the quality of being capable of mutation)

Derivation:

changeable (capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature)

changeable (subject to change)


 Learn English with... Proverbs 
"Live and let die." (English proverb)

"Boys will be boys and play boyish games." (Latin proverb)

"Laughing for no reason is rude." (Arabic proverb)

"If you own two houses, it's raining in one of them." (Corsican proverb)



ALSO IN ENGLISH DICTIONARY:


© 2000-2023 AudioEnglish.org | AudioEnglish® is a Registered Trademark | Terms of use and privacy policy
Contact