UNCHANGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unchanging mean? 

• UNCHANGING (adjective)
  The adjective UNCHANGING has 2 senses:

1. conforming to the same principles or course of action over time

2. showing little if any change

  Familiarity information: UNCHANGING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNCHANGING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Conforming to the same principles or course of action over time

Similar:

consistent ((sometimes followed by 'with') in agreement or consistent or reliable)

Derivation:

unchangingness (the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Showing little if any change

Synonyms:

stable; static; unchanging

Context example:

a static population

Similar:

unchangeable (not changeable or subject to change)

Derivation:

unchangingness (the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged)

 Context examples 

But in time Dennin grew more tractable. It seemed to her that he was growing weary of his unchanging recumbent position. He began to beg and plead to be released.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that every one may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The Abbot, from his point of vantage, looked down on the two long lines of faces, placid and sun-browned for the most part, with the large bovine eyes and unlined features which told of their easy, unchanging existence.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On this occasion she was so much disturbed in mind as to find it necessary to open the bedroom door, and make a course for herself, comprising the full extent of the bedrooms from wall to wall; and while Mr. Dick and I sat quietly by the fire, she kept passing in and out, along this measured track, at an unchanging pace, with the regularity of a clock-pendulum.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She attended to all that Mrs. Jennings had to say upon the subject, with an unchanging complexion, dissented from her in nothing, and was heard three times to say, Yes, ma'am.—She listened to her praise of Lucy with only moving from one chair to another, and when Mrs. Jennings talked of Edward's affection, it cost her only a spasm in her throat.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)