changeableness

Roget category 149

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.7. Change
›› 1.7.2. Complex change

#149. Changeableness

noun

changeableness etc. adj. — mutability, inconstancy — versatility, mobility — instability, unstable equilibrium — vacillation etc. (irresolution) 605 — fluctuation, vicissitude — alternation etc. (oscillation) 314.
restlessness etc. adj.. fidgets, disquiet — disquietude, inquietude — unrest — agitation etc. 315.
moon, Proteus, chameleon, quicksilver, shifting sands, weathercock, harlequin, Cynthia of the minute, April showers^† — wheel of Fortune — transientness etc. 111^†.

verb

fluctuate, vary, waver, flounder, flicker, flitter, flit, flutter, shift, shuffle, shake, totter, tremble, vacillate, wamble^†, turn and turn about, ring the changes — sway to and fro, shift to and fro — change and change about — waffle, blow with the wind (irresolute) 605 — oscillate etc. 314 — vibrate between, two extremes, oscillate between, two extremes — alternate — have as man phases as the moon.

adjective

changeable, changeful — changing etc. 140 — mutable, variable, checkered, ever changing — protean, proteiform^† — versatile.
unstaid^†, inconstant — unsteady, unstable, unfixed, unsettled — fluctuating etc. v. — restless — agitated etc. 315 — erratic, fickle — irresolute etc. 605 — capricious etc. 608 — touch and go — inconsonant, fitful, spasmodic — vibratory — vagrant, wayward — desultory — afloat — alternating — alterable, plastic, mobile — transient etc. 111 — wavering.

adverb

seesaw etc. (oscillation) 314 — off and on.

phrase

a rolling stone gathers no moss —" pictra mossa non fa muschis [It] — honores mutant mores [Lat.] — varium et mutabile semper femina [Lat.] [Vergil].

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