| ADJECTIVE | all | inconstant | likely to change frequently often without apparent or cogent reason |
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| Meaning | likely to change frequently often without apparent or cogent reason; variable. | |
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| Attribute of | constancy, stability | The quality of being enduring and free from change or variation |
| Narrower | false, untrue | (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection |
| fickle, volatile | marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments | |
| mutable | Prone to frequent change | |
| See also | changeable, changeful | Such that alteration is possible |
| unfaithful | not true to duty or obligation or promises | |
| unstable | lacking stability or fixity / fixity or firmness | |
| variable | liable to or capable of change | |
| volatile | Evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures | |
| Opposite | constant | steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection |
| Spanish | inconstante | |
| Catalan | inconstant | |
| Nouns | inconstancy | the quality of being changeable and variable |
| inconstancy | unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous | |
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