HyperDic: constancy

English > 3 senses of the word *constancy*:
NOUN	attribute	constancy, stability	the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation
	cognition	constancy, perceptual constancy	(psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation
	attribute	constancy	faithfulness and dependability in personal attachments (especially sexual fidelity)

constancy > pronunciation
Sounds	kaa'nstahnsiy
Rhymes	absorbency ... Yangtze: 255 rhymes with siy...

English > *constancy*: 3 senses > noun 1, attribute
Meaning	The quality of being enduring and free from change or variation.
Example	"early mariners relied on the constancy of the trade winds"
Synonym	stability
Attributes	constant	steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection
Attributes	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
	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
Opposite	inconstancy, changefulness	The quality of being changeable and variable
Spanish	constancia
Catalan	constància
Adjectives	constant	unvarying in nature

English > *constancy*: 3 senses > noun 2, cognition
Meaning	(psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation.
Synonym	perceptual constancy
Category	psychology, psychological science	The science of mental life
Narrower	brightness constancy	The tendency for a visual object to be perceived as having the same brightness under widely different conditions of illumination
	color constancy, colour constancy	The tendency for a color to look the same under widely different viewing conditions
	shape constancy	The tendency to perceive the shape of a rigid object as constant despite differences in the viewing angle (and consequent differences in the shape of the pattern projected on the retina of the eye)
	size constancy	The tendency to perceive the veridical size of a familiar / familiar object despite differences in their distance (and consequent differences in the size of the pattern projected on the retina of the eye)
Broader	perception	The process of perceiving

English > *constancy*: 3 senses > noun 3, attribute
Meaning	faithfulness and dependability in personal attachments (especially sexual fidelity).
Broader	fidelity, faithfulness	The quality of being faithful
Spanish	constancia
Adjectives	constant	steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection

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