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CHANGEABLENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does changeableness mean?
• CHANGEABLENESS (noun)
The noun CHANGEABLENESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change
Familiarity information: CHANGEABLENESS 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 ("changeableness" 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 "changeableness"):
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)
Antonym:
changelessness (the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged)
Derivation:
changeable (such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change)
changeable (capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature)
changeable (varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles)
changeable (subject to change)
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