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The quality of being capable of mutation
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mutability
Word definitions for mutability in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality or state of being mutable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mutability \Mu`ta*bil"i*ty\, n. [L. mutabilitas: cf. F. mutabilit['e].] The quality of being mutable, or subject to change or alteration, either in form, state, or essential character; susceptibility of change; changeableness; inconstancy; variation. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Mutability " is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley which appeared in the 1816 collection Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude: And Other Poems . Half of the poem is quoted in his wife Mary Shelley 's novel Frankenstein although his authorship is not acknowledged. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "tendency to change, inconstancy," from Middle French mutabilité , from Latin mutabilitas , from mutabilis (see mutable ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being capable of mutation [syn: mutableness ] [ant: immutability , immutability ]
Usage examples of mutability.
From chance, and death, and mutability, The clogs of that which else might oversoar The loftiest star of unascended heaven, Pinnacled dim in the intense inane.
It is not here expressly stated that the theory of the mutability of species is Mr.
I would have no terror of mutability because I would know all, and the pygmies who now surround me would be spiteblasted away.
Andries Rhoodie set forth those origins to him, had frequently dwelt on the mutability of history.
Quirk added mutability of desires to the strange humors that had taken possession of him.
And in his stable at Ascot the son of Sleeping Dove, from home for the first time, pondered on the mutability of equine affairs, closing and opening his eyes, and breathing without sound in the strawy dark, above the black cat he had brought to bear him company.
And why should moralists mourn over the mutability that gives the chief charm to all that passes so transitorily before our eyes!
Why, it may be asked, have all the most eminent living naturalists and geologists rejected this view of the mutability of species?
Although naturalists very properly demand a full explanation of every difficulty from those who believe in the mutability of species, on their own side they ignore the whole subject of the first appearance of species in what they consider reverent silence.
He saw a lemon-colored flower which, as the days passed, would reveal to him its mutability, for it would turn apricot in the afternoon and a deep red at sunset, as others, saffron in the center, faded then to lilial white.