Meanings
- uncountablePropensity to change.
I have cause to weep—I must weep over my own changefulness, and over the sweetest illusions of my youth.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 1062 more examples
The faint fluctuations in the light as someone ironed and someone played and someone experimented and the refrigerator cycled on and off had been part of the dream. This changefulness, though barely noticeable, had been a torment. But it had stopped now.
2001, Jonathan Franzen, The CorrectionsLike Nijinsky he had an astounding jump, an extraordinary neck, an animal intensity, an actor’s changefulness.
2009 April 12, Alastair Macaulay, “‘This Probably Isn’t Possible, But ...’”, in New York Times
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe quality of being changeable and variable
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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