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CHANGEABILITY
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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 change
Familiarity information: CHANGEABILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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)
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