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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The state or quality of being eccentrically variable or fickle.
  • noun An instance of being eccentrically variable or fickle.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Lack of constancy in action, feeling, etc.; mutability or instability; unsteadiness; fickleness: as, the inconstancy of a flame, or of one's temper.
  • noun Lack of sameness or uniformity; dissimilitude.
  • noun Synonyms Changeableness, vacillation, wavering.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being inconstant; lack of constancy; mutability; fickleness; variableness.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Lack of constancy; lack of consistency in thought, emotion or action.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous
  • noun the quality of being changeable and variable

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