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Princeton's WordNet

  1. mutability, mutablenessnoun

    the quality of being capable of mutation

Wiktionary

  1. mutabilitynoun

    The quality or state of being mutable.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Mutabilitynoun

    Etymology: mutabilite, Fr. mutabilis, Latin.

    The mutability of that end, for which they are made, maketh them also changeable. Richard Hooker.

    My fancy was the air, most free,
    And full of mutability,
    Big with chimeras. John Suckling.

    Plato confesses that the heavens and the frame of the world are corporeal, and therefore subject to mutability. Edward Stillingfleet.

    Ambitions, covetings, change of prides, disdain,
    Nice longings, slanders, mutability. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline.

Wikipedia

  1. Mutability

    The principle of mutability is the notion that any physical property which appears to follow a conservation law may undergo some physical process that violates its conservation. John Archibald Wheeler offered this speculative principle after Stephen Hawking predicted the evaporation of black holes which violates baryon number conservation.

ChatGPT

  1. mutability

    Mutability refers to the ability of an object or entity to change or be changed. In computer programming, it often refers to whether data within an object can be altered after the object is created. In genetics, mutability refers to something's capacity for mutation. In a broader sense, it may refer to a state or quality of being changeable, not constant, or capable of alteration.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Mutabilitynoun

    the quality of being mutable, or subject to change or alteration, either in form, state, or essential character; susceptibility of change; changeableness; inconstancy; variation

  2. Etymology: [L. mutabilitas: cf. F. mutabilit.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Mutability in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Mutability in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Mutability in a Sentence

  1. Omar Khayyam:

    Lament not Fortune?s mutability, And seize her fickle favours ere they flee; If others never mourned departed bliss, How should a turn of Fortune come to thee?

  2. David Darlington, from his novel Angels Visits: An Inquiry into the Mystery of Zinfandel:

    In the mirrorlike relationship between wine and human beings, Zinfandel owned more reflective properties than any other grape; in its infinite mutability, it was capable of expressing almost any philosophical position or psychological function. As a result, its own "true" nature might never be known.

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