Meaning | The quality of being enduring and free from change or variation. |
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Example | "early mariners relied on the constancy of the trade winds" |
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Synonym | stability |
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Attributes | constant | steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection |
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inconstant | likely to change frequently often without apparent or cogent reason |
Narrower | invariance | The nature of a quantity or property or function that remains unchanged when a given transformation is applied to it |
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metastability | The quality of a physical system that persists in its existing equilibrium when undisturbed (or only slightly disturbed) but able to pass to a more stable equilibrium when sufficiently disturbed |
monotony | constancy of tone or pitch or inflection |
Broader | changelessness, unchangeability, unchangeableness, unchangingness | The quality of being unchangeable |
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Opposite | inconstancy, changefulness | The quality of being changeable and variable |
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Spanish | constancia |
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Catalan | constància |
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Adjectives | constant | unvarying in nature |
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