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MUTABLENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being capable of mutation
Synonyms:
mutability; mutableness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("mutableness" is a kind of...):
changeability; changeableness (the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mutableness"):
alterability (the quality of being alterable)
vicissitude (mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another))
Antonym:
immutableness (the quality of being incapable of mutation)
Derivation:
mutable (capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature)