FICKLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fickleness mean? 

• FICKLENESS (noun)
  The noun FICKLENESS has 1 sense:

1. unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FICKLENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

faithlessness; falseness; fickleness; inconstancy

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

infidelity; unfaithfulness (the quality of being unfaithful)

Derivation:

fickle (liable to sudden unpredictable change)

fickle (marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments)

 Context examples 

Could you have believed there had been such inconstancy and fickleness, and everything that is bad in the world?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He was disgusted with himself, surprised at his own fickleness, and full of a queer mixture of disappointment and relief that he could recover from such a tremendous blow so soon.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Did I not, in my truest thoughts, always recurring and always dismissed, see past the beauty of the face, and, peering into the soul, discern the twin shadows of selfishness and of fickleness glooming at the back of it?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Such fickleness!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)