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Definition: Constancy |
ConstancyNoun1. The quality of being free from change or variation. 2. The tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation. 3. Faithfulness in personal attachment (especially sexual fidelity). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "constancy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Constancy \Con"stan*cy\, noun. [Latin expression constantia: compare to the French expression constance. See Constant.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Biology & Biotechnology | The relative consistency of occurrence(and therefore degree of dispersal)of a species throughout a community or throughout different examples of a given community. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: ConstancySynonym: stability (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: inconstancy (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Frequency | Regularity, uniformity, constancy, clock-work precision; punctuality; (exactness); even tenor; system; routine; (custom); formula; rule; (form, regulation); keynote, standard, model; precedent; (prototype); conformity. |
Obedience | Allegiance, loyalty, fealty, homage, deference, devotion; constancy, fidelity. |
Perseverance | Constancy, steadiness; singleness of purpose, tenacity of purpose; persistence, plodding, patience; sedulity; (industry); pertinacy, pertinacity, pertinaciousness; iteration; |
Probity | Constancy; faithfulness; Adjective: fidelity, loyalty; incorruption, incorruptibility. |
Stability | Noun: stability; immutability; Adjective: unchangeability; Adjective: unchangeableness; constancy; stable equilibrium, immobility, soundness, vitality, stabiliment, stiffness, ankylosis, solidity, aplomb. |
Uniformity | Noun: uniformity; homogeneity, homogeneousness; consistency; connaturality, connaturalness; homology; accordance; conformity; agreement; consonance, uniformness. regularity, constancy, even tenor,.routine; monotony. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Constancy |
| English words defined with "constancy": -ancy ♦ c ♦ Feeble-minded ♦ Harddihood ♦ light speed ♦ monotony ♦ Resolution of a nebula ♦ sameness, speed of light. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "constancy": Candles ♦ Fireman ♦ heat balance ♦ Jewels ♦ Letter, Locket ♦ PASTEURIZER ♦ relativity principle, Rings Noted in Fable. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Red Wing's Constancy (1910) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Giuseppe Mazzini | Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues. |
Lord Byron | Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal. |
Sir Thomas Browne | Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good. |
Walt Disney | Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarised in four C's. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage and Constancy, and the greatest of all is Confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | It is necessary that constancy of mind, persistency of purpose, and the grand simplicity of decision shall guide and rule the conduct of the English-speaking peoples in peace as they did in war. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | But constancy, chastity, good sense, and good nature were not rated, because they would not bear the charge of collecting. |
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John Adams | 1797-1801 | In this city may that piety and virtue, that wisdom and magnanimity, that constancy and self-government, which adorned the great character whose name it bears be forever held in veneration! |
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| "Constancy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Constancy" is used about 75 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 75 | 38,535 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "constancy": brightness constancy ♦ color constancy ♦ colour constancy ♦ shape constancy ♦ size constancy. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
constancy object | 4 |
constancy size | 3 |
constancy perceptual | 3 |
color constancy | 3 |
constancy poem poetry | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "constancy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | qëndrueshmëri (durability, firmness, fixity, lasting, permanence, permanency, resistance, stability, stamina, stand up), pandryshueshmëri (equability, immutability, invariability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | وفاء (loyalty, trustfulness, trustworthiness), إنتظام (alignment, promptitude, punctuality, range, register, uniformity), إستقرار (fastness, firmness, fixity, settlement, stability, stabilization, steadiness, subsidence), إطراد (equability, equality), إخلاص (adherence, allegiance, candor, candour, dedication, devotion, fidelity, genuineness, honesty, loyalty, sincerity, steadiness, trueness, trustfulness), ثبات (determination, endurance, fastness, firmness, fixedness, fixity, fixture, immobility, immovability, invariability, perseverance, persistence, resolution, solidity, stability, steadiness, stillness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | твърдост (crispness, endurance, firmness, fixedness, forcefulness, fortitude, granite, hardness, resolution, resolve, rigidity, sand, stability, stoicism, substance, tenacity), вярност (adherence, adhesion, allegiance, devotion, faith, faithfulness, fidelity, justness, loyalty, troth), постоянство (assiduity, consistency, firmness, perseverance, persistence, stability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 定型性. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vytrvalost (assiduity, endurance, perseverance, persistence, steadiness, strenuousness), vìrnost (adherence, allegiance, devotion, faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty, troth, truth, truthfulness), stálost (permanence, permanency, stability, steadiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | konstansprocent (frequency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | de voor kruip oeldende voorwaarde, dat het volume constan blijft (the constancy of volume condition which holds for creep condition). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پایداری (Endurance, Permanency, Resist, Resistance, Stability), وفاداری (Allegiance, Camaraderie, Loyalty, Troth), استواری (Backbone, Solidity), ثبات (Fortitude, Grit, Permanency, Poise, Stability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | yleisyys (commonness, frequency, universality), lukuisuus (frequency), frekvenssi (frequency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | constance. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | beständigkeit (consistency, continualness, durability, firmness, fixity, invariance, perpetualness, resistance, resistiveness, stability, steadiness, vitality), Standhaftigkeit (endurance, fortitude, resolution, staunchness, steadfastness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σταθερότησ (stability, stableness, stanchness, steadfastness, steadiness), σταθερότητα (consistence, consistency, firmness, immutability, permanence, permanency, reliability, stability, stableness, stanchness, steadfastness, steadiness), αρουσία εμφάνιση (frequency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | יציבות (durability, fastness, fixity, solidity, stability, steadiness), תמי"ות (assiduity, continuity, duration, permanence, perseverance, regularity, steadfastness), ת"ירות (frequency, regularity), קביעות (certainty, durability, fixity, permanence, regularity, steadiness), "תמ"" (continuity, diligence, endurance, permanence, perseverance, persistence, stamina), "תמ" (diligence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | állandóság (consistence, consistency, fixedness, immutability, permanence, permanency, stability), állhatatosság (fixedness, loylity, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, stability, tenacity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | ketetapan (consistency, decision), kesetiaan (allegiance, devotion, loyalty), kekekalan (durability, immortalilty, perpetuality), keajekan (regularity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | costanza (steadiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | '常 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | そうしゅ (approvingly, both hands, fidelity, suzerain), ふえき (compulsory service, exacted service, forced labor, immutable, slave labour), せっそう (chastity, fidelity, honor, integrity, rhythm), "うし" (57th of the sexagenary cycle, accelerated, acceleration, backward, correspondence, developing, exasperated, exasperation, favorite courtier, filial devotion, innovation, labia, lips, march, meritorious retainer, one's junior, parade, red lips, renewal, renovation, rise, rising, spiritism, spiritualism, steadiness, telecommunications, update), "うせい (aggression, calibration, composition, correction, correction of press, fairness, fixed star, future generations, future life, hardness, impartiality, justice, life to come, loud or high-pitched voice, made of steel, matchless, offensive, organization, posterity, proofreading, public welfare, rebirth, rectification, regeneration, rehabilitation, reorganization, resuscitation, revision, tropism, unparalleled, Welfare Ministry, younger people), "うじょうせい (homeostasis), "うじょう (advancement, bank of a large river, code of morals, colloid, compromise, concession, elevation, factory, favour, friendship, hospitality, improvement, intimacy, kindness, mill, moral principles, plant, progress, rise, ruined castle, siege, speech, vocal message, workshop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 불변성 (invariance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sheerid (continuity, deathlessness, duration, endlessness, immortality, permanence), shassooaght (doggedness, immobility, insistence, invariability, persistency, resoluteness, steadfastness), kinjid (assurance, assurance certainty, persistency, regularity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onstancycay constância (fixedness, perseverance, persistence, stability, uniformity), lealdade (adhesion, devotion, faithfulness, loyalty, sportsmanship, trustiness), frequência (attendance, commonness, frequency, repair), firmeza (assurance, consistence, consistency, fastness, firmless, fixation, fixity, flatiron, hardness, immovability, iron, ironwork, persistence, poise, resolution, solidity, stability, standfast, substance, substantiality, tenacity). (various references) credinţã (allegiance, belief, communion, confession, confidence, conviction, creed, denomination, faith, faithfulness, fidelity, hope, illusion, loyalty, persuasion, religion, standpoint, trust), constanţã (constant, steadfastness), consistenţã (consistence, consistency, firmness, solidity, stability, steadiness), statornicie (durability, firmness, perseverance, stability, steadfastness, steadiness), stabilitate (permanence, permanency, poise, stability, steadfastness, steadiness), stãruinţã (assiduity, diligence, hardness, insistence, patience, perseverance, persistence, solicitation, steadfastness, steadiness, tenacity, zeal), fidelitate (attachment, exactness, faith, faithfulness, fealty, fidelity, reality, retentiveness, staunchness, tenacity, troth). (various references) постоянство (consistency, permanence, permanency, persistence, self-consistency). (various references) stalnost (permanence, permanency), postojanost (constant, immutability, stability, steadfastness, steadiness). (various references) constancia (certainty, endurance, enduringness, perseverance). (various references) varaktighet (continuance, durability, duration, length, permanence, permanency, standing), trofasthet (faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty), ståndaktighet (perseverance, pertinacity), frekvens (frequency, incidence, patronage), beständighet (fixity, invariability, permanence, permanency, perpetuity). (various references) vefa (adherence, fidelity, trueness, truth), sebat (fastness, permanency, perseverance, persistence, pertinacity, resoluteness, steadfastness, steadiness, stoutness, strenght of purpose), sadakât (allegiance, devotion, faith, faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty, obedience, singleness, troth, trueness, trustiness, truth), sabitlik (fixity, immobility, immovability, invariability, rigidity, stability, stableness, steadiness), istikrar (ballast, easiness, permanence, permanency, stability, stableness, steadiness, steady, uniformity), bağlılık (adherence, adhesion, allegiance, attachment, cementation, cohesion, cohesiveness, correlation, devotion, faith, faithfulness, fidelity, homage, interdependence, interdependency, loyalty, obedience, singleness, subordination, troth), azim (determination, devoutness, doggedness, firm intention, pep, perseverance, purpose, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, steadfastness, strenght of purpose, tenacity, will, zeal). (various references) вірність (adherence, adhesion, allegiance, attachment, faith, faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty, troth, validity), постійність (consistency, persistence, stability). (various references) tính trung kiên, tính kiên trì tính kiên định, sự trung th nh (canonization, staunchness), sự không thay đổi, sự chung thuỷ sự bất biến, sự bền lòng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | constantia, constantiam, pondus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "constancy": inconstancy. (additional references) | |
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"Constancy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: consitancy, constance, conusance, costancy, ocnstancy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "constancy" (pronounced kÄ"nstunsē) |
| 9 | k Ä" n s t u n s ē | inconstancy. |
| 6 | -s t u n s ē | consistency, inconsistency. |
| 5 | -t u n s ē | accountancy, competency, consultancy, expectancy, hesitancy, incompetency, latency, militancy, potency. |
| 4 | -u n s ē | absorbency, agency, ascendancy, ascendency, buoyancy, clemency, cogency, complacency, Conservancy, constituency, contingency, counterinsurgency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, discrepancy, dormancy, efficiency, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expediency, fluency, frequency, immunodeficiency, incumbency, indecency, inefficiency, infancy, infrequency, insolvency, insurgency, interagency, irrelevancy, leniency, malignancy, nonemergency, occupancy, poignancy, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, redundancy, regency, relevancy, residency, resiliency, solvency, stridency, stringency, sufficiency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, truancy, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy, vibrancy. |
| 3 | -n s ē | bouncy, chancy, deviancy, fancy, fiancee, mincy, Nancy, necromancy, teensy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-n-n-o-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: cantons, canyons. | |
-3 letters: accost, annoys, astony, cannot, canons, canton, cantos, canyon, coacts, cotans, cytons, nancys, octans, scanty, sonant. | |
-4 letters: ancon, annoy, antsy, ascot, atony, canny, canon, canso, canst, canto, cants, canty, coact, coast, coats, cocas, conns, costa, cotan, cyano, cyans, cycas, cyton, nancy, nasty, nonas, octan, santo, scant, sonny, stony, tacos, tansy. | |
-5 letters: acts. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-n-n-o-s-t-y" | |
+2 letters: consultancy, inconstancy. | |
+3 letters: actinomycins, anticyclones. | |
+5 letters: nonpsychiatric. | |
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