mutability
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English mutabilite, from Old French mutabilite, from Latin mutabilitas; equivalent to mutable + -ity.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌmjuːtəˈbɪlɪti/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌmjutəˈbɪlɪti/, [ˌmjuɾəˈbɪləɾi]
- Hyphenation: mu‧ta‧bil‧i‧ty
Noun[edit]
mutability (countable and uncountable, plural mutabilities)
- The quality or state of being mutable.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
- He did indeed account somewhat unfairly for this sudden change; for besides some hard and unjust surmises concerning female fickleness and mutability, he began to suspect that he owed this want of civility to his want of horses […]
- 1819 November 10, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Mutability of Literature”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number IV, New York, N.Y.: […] C. S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 23:
- There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature.
Translations[edit]
quality or state of being mutable
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