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Definition: Inconstancy |
InconstancyNoun1. Unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous. 2. The quality of being changeable and variable. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "inconstancy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Inconstancy \In*con"stan*cy\, noun. [Latin expression inconstantia.]. (references) |
Synonyms: InconstancySynonyms: changefulness (n), faithlessness (n), falseness (n), fickleness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: constancy (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Changeableness | Noun: changeableness; Adjective: mutability, inconstancy; versatility, mobility; instability, unstable equilibrium; vacillation; (irresolution); fluctuation, vicissitude; alternation; (oscillation). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Inconstancy |
| English words defined with "inconstancy": Inconstance ♦ Unconstancy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "inconstancy": Fleas ♦ Madness ♦ Treasures ♦ Wheel of Fortune. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "inconstancy": Unconstancy. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Inconstancy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inconstancy" is used about 17 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% | 17 | 85,106 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
inconstancy | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "inconstancy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | paqëndruesahmëri. (various references) | |
Arabic | تقلب (alteration, change, fickleness, float, fluctuate, fluctuation, flux, inconsistency, levity, oscillate, oscillation, swing, toss, tumble, turn, variation, versatility, vicissitude, welter), تحول (chop, convert, evolution, juncture, metamorphosis, modification, modify, mutate, mutation, reduction, switch, transference, transform, transformation, transfusion, transition, transmutation, turn, turn into, turnover). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | колебливост (doubling, inconsistency, irresolution, vacillation, versatility), капризност (faddiness, fickleness, waywardness, whimsicality), непостоянство (changeability, fickleness, instability, irresolution, mercuriality, mobility, uncertainty, vacillation, variability, volatility, wabble, wobble), лекомисленост, променливост (changeability, inconsistency, inequality, variability, versatility), изневяра (adultery, defection, falseness, infidelity). (various references) | |
Czech | nestálost (instability, vicissitude). (various references) | |
Danish | somatisk inkonstans (somatic inconstancy). (various references) | |
French | instabilité (insecurity, instability), inconstance. (various references) | |
German | unbeständigkeit (changeability, discreteness, discursiveness, erraticness, fickleness, impermanence, inconsistency, instability, moodiness, transitoriness, unsettledness, unsteadiness, variability), Unbeständigkeiten. (various references) | |
Greek | αστάθεια (disequilibrium, fickleness, frailness, frailty, instability, mutability, shakiness, unsteadiness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | állhatatlanság (fickleness, instability, lubricity, mobility). (various references) | |
Italian | incostanza (changeableness, fickleness, giddiness), volubilità (discursiveness, fickleness, variability), mobilità (mobility). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 性悪 (ill-natured), 変心 (apostasy, change of mind), 心変わり (change one's mind, faithlessness), 不実 (faithlessness, falsehood, insincerity, perfidiousness), 不定 (insecurity, uncertainty), 不定 (indefinite, insecurity, uncertainty, undecided). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しょうわる (ill-natured), ふじつ (at an early date, faithlessness, falsehood, in a few days, insincerity, perfidiousness), ふじょう (defilement, dirtiness, filthiness, floating fortress, impurity, indefinite, insecurity, latrine, menses, rising to the surface, surfacing, toilet, uncertainty, uncleanliness, undecided, warship), ふてい (indefinite, infidelity, insecurity, insubordination, outlawry, uncertainty, unchastity, undecided, unfaithfulness), こころがわり (change one's mind, faithlessness), へんしん (apostasy, change of mind, deflection, disguise, eccentricity, metamorphosis, reply, transformation, veering). (various references) | |
Manx | neuveayntys (transience), loaganys (staggering), kirkinys (alternation, changeableness, fluctuation), anchadjinaght. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inconstancyay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | instabilidade (changeability, fluctuation, fluidity, instability), inconstncia, carter incerto. (various references) | |
Romanian | inconstanţã (fickleness), inconsecvenţã (inconsistence, irrelevance), dovadã de incostanţã, caracter schimbãtor. (various references) | |
Russian | непостоянство (changeability, fickleness, instability, vacillation, variability, volatility). (various references) | |
Scottish | buaidheam (fits of inconstancy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | promenljivost (changeability, fickleness, transmutation, variability, versatility), nestalnost (fickleness, inconsistency, levity, versatility, volatility). (various references) | |
Spanish | inconstancia (fickleness, skittishness, unsteadiness), veleidad (fickleness, flightiness, waywardness, whim). (various references) | |
Swedish | vankelmod (fluctuation, irresolution), ombytlighet (changeability, fickleness, inconsistency, levity, variability, volatility), föränderlighet (mutability, variability). (various references) | |
Turkish | sadakâtsizlik (disloyalty, perfidiousness, perfidy, unfaithfulness), sabit olmama (unsteadiness), değişkenlik (capriciousness, changeability, fluidity, incalculability, inequality, instability, mobility, uncertainty, unsteadiness, variability, variable, versatility), döneklik (apostasy, fickleness, tergiversation, untrustworthiness, variability, versatility, volatility). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | несталість (caprice, changeability, fickleness, impermanence, mutability, versatility), нерегулярність (irregularity). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính thiếu kiên nhẫn tính không kiên định, tính không chung thu, tính không bền lòng, tính hay thay đổi (changeability, fickleness, flightiness, humoursomeness, mutability, unevenness, vagary, variability, variableness, volatility, waywardness, whimsicality, whimsicalness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | infidelitas. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Inconstancy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: imconstancy, inconstans. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "inconstancy" (pronounced i'nkÄ"nstunsē) |
| 9 | -k Ä" n s t u n s ē | constancy. |
| 6 | -s t u n s ē | consistency, inconsistency. |
| 5 | -t u n s ē | accountancy, competency, consultancy, latency, expectancy, hesitancy, incompetency, 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. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-i-n-n-n-o-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: constancy. | |
-3 letters: actinons, canonist, contains, cyanotic, instancy, sanction, santonin, sonantic, syntonic. | |
-4 letters: actinon, actions, anoints, atonics, cannons, canonic, cantons, canyons, cations, cocains, contain, cyanins, cycasin, incants, nations, onanist, stannic, syconia, synanon, tannins. | |
-5 letters: accost, actins, action, anions, annoys, anoint, antics, astony, atonic, cannon, cannot, canons, cantic, canton, cantos, canyon, casino, cation, coacts, coatis, cocain. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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