Word Meanings - INCONSTANCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being inconstant; want of constancy; mutability; fickleness; variableness. For unto knight there was no greater shame, Than lightness and inconstancie in love. Spenser.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INCONSTANCY)

• Instability
• Mutability
• wavering
• fickleness
• inconstancy
• Levity
• Lightness
• frivolity
• flightiness
• vanity
• thoughtlessness

Related words: (words related to INCONSTANCY)

• MUTABILITY
  The quality of being mutable, or subject to change or alteration, either in form, state, or essential character; susceptibility of change; changeableness; inconstancy; variation. Plato confessed that the heavens and the frame of the world
• WAVERER
  One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like. Shak.
• LIGHTNESS
  The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; delicacy; grace. Syn. -- Levity; volatility; instability; inconstancy; unsteadiness; giddiness; flightiness; airiness; gayety; liveliness; agility;
• VANITY BOX
  A small box, usually jeweled or of precious metal and worn on a chain, containing a mirror, powder puff, and other small toilet articles for a woman.
• FRIVOLITY
  The condition or quality of being frivolous; also, acts or habits of trifling; unbecoming levity of disposition.
• FLIGHTINESS
  The state or quality of being flighty. The flightness of her temper. Hawthorne. Syn. -- Levity; giddiness; volatility; lightness; wildness; eccentricity. See Levity.
• WAVERINGLY
  In a wavering manner.
• WAVERINGNESS
  The quality or state of wavering.
• LEVITY
  1. The quality of weighing less than something else of equal bulk; relative lightness, especially as shown by rising through, or floating upon, a contiguous substance; buoyancy; -- opposed to gravity. He gave the form of levity to that
• INSTABILITY
  1. The quality or condition of being unstable; want of stability, firmness, or steadiness; liability to give way or to fail; insecurity; precariousness; as, the instability of a building. 2. Lack of determination of fixedness; inconstancy;
• INCONSTANCY
  The quality or state of being inconstant; want of constancy; mutability; fickleness; variableness. For unto knight there was no greater shame, Than lightness and inconstancie in love. Spenser.
• VANITY
  1. The quality or state of being vain; want of substance to satisfy desire; emptiness; unsubstantialness; unrealness; falsity. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Eccl. i. 2. Here I may well show the vanity
• WAVER
  1. To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter. With banners and pennons wavering with the wind. Ld. Berners. Thou wouldst waver on one of these trees as a terror to all evil speakers
• FICKLENESS
  The quality of being fickle; instability; inconsonancy. Shak.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• IMMUTABILITY
  The state or quality of being immutable; immutableness. Heb. vi. 17.
• TRANSMUTABILITY
  The quality of being transmutable.
• INCOMMUTABILITY
  The quality or state of being incommutable.
• INTRANSMUTABILITY
  The quality of being intransmutable.
• COMMUTABILITY
  The quality of being commutable.