inconstancy

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being inconstant; want of constancy; mutability; fickleness; variableness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

fickleness falseness changefulness faithlessness caprice oscillation variation flux instability disruption adultery treachery infidelity inconsistency insecurity
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Antonyms

constancy fidelity belief faith accuracy equilibrium
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Hypernyms

infidelity changeability changeableness unfaithfulness

Hyponyms

capriciousness unpredictability

Examples

There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change every hour, I do not know whether there is a means of giving fixed rules for adapting discourse to the inconstancy of our caprices. Blaise Pascal

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. Blaise Pascal

All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine. James Joyce

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war. Miguel de Cervantes

With men, you say yourself, infidelity is not inconstancy. Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

'One to the other / Unos á otros' - Thus goes the world. We mock at and deceive each other. He who, yesterday, was the ball, is to-day the horseman in the ring. Fortune directs the feast, and distributes the parts according to the inconstancy of its caprice. Francisco Goya

Close letter words and terms

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