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variableness

American  
[vair-ee-uh-buhl-nis] / ˈvɛər i ə bəl nɪs /

noun

  1. the state or quality of being variable.


Other Word Forms

  • invariableness noun

Example Sentences

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His image, reflected on the retina of the soul, was beautiful as the dream of imagination, an image on which time could cast no shadow, being without variableness or change.

From Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel by Hentz, Caroline Lee

God must be represented as He is—the author of good always, of evil never; also as having in him no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

In the midst of all this variableness and uncertainty of human opinion, is there no ground of certainty?

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

Let men be thankful for the variableness of women.

From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

Just because the world is so full of variableness, our hearts' affections fasten with the tighter grip upon anything that seems to have the guarantees of permanence.

From A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by Huntington, William Reed