Mutability

Definition: Mutability

Mutability

Noun

1. The quality of being capable of mutation.

Date "mutability" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references)

Domain	Definition
Mathematics	The susceptibility of a characteristic to assume different qualitative values. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Mutability

Synonym: mutableness (n). (additional references)

Antonym: immutability (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: Mutability

English words defined with "mutability": vicissitude. (references)

Specialty definitions using "mutability": Fa�rie Queene. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Faerie Queene the Mutability Cantos and Selections F (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Flux & Mutability [IMPORT] (reference) Flux + Mutability (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Joseph Addison	Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
Percy Bysshe Shelley	Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Mutability" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mutability" 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

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.

Language		Translations for "mutability"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		lëvizshmëri (mercuriality, mobility, motility, movability, removability, variability). (various references)

Arabic		‏اللاإستقرارية, ‏التحولية, ‏التغيرية. (various references)

Czech		promìnlivost (changeability, fluidity, flux, vicissitude). (various references)

Danish		mutabilitet (the susceptibility of a characteristic to assume different qualitative values). (various references)

Dutch		mutability (the susceptibility of a characteristic to assume different qualitative values). (various references)

Finnish		kvalitatiivinen muuttuja (the susceptibility of a characteristic to assume different qualitative values). (various references)

French		mutabilité, propriété de pouvoir prendre des valeurs diverses. (various references)

German		Veränderlichkeit (adjustability, alterability, changeability, changeableness, inconstancy, variability), mutabilität (the susceptibility of a characteristic to assume different qualitative values). (various references)

Greek		μεταβλητότητα (alterability, variability), ευμετάβλητο, αστάθεια (disequilibrium, fickleness, frailness, frailty, inconstancy, instability, shakiness, unsteadiness), αστασία (inconstancy, instability, lubricity, mercurialness, skittishness, tergiversation, volatileness). (various references)

Italian		mutabilit� (changeability). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		有為転変 (fleeting shifts and changes). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ういて�"ぺ�" (fleeting shifts and changes). (various references)

Manx		yn-arreeaght, caghlaaid (changeableness, variedness). (various references)

Pig Latin		utabilitymay

Portuguese		mutabilidade (fluidity, instability, variability). (various references)

Romanian		mutabilitate, variabilitate (changeableness, fluctuation, unsteadiness, variability), schimbare (about-face, alteration, change, changeableness, chop, conversion, exchange, fluctuation, modification, mutation, novelty, passage, shift, transformation, unsteadiness, vacillation, variability, variance, variation). (various references)

Russian		переменчивость (changeability, fickleness), изменчивость (changeability, fickleness, inconstancy, inequality, uncertainty, variability, volatility). (various references)

Spanish		mutabilidad (changability, changeability). (various references)

Swedish		föränderlighet (inconstancy, variability). (various references)

Thai		ความไม่แน่นอน (hazard, mutableness). (various references)

Ukrainian		несталість (caprice, changeability, fickleness, impermanence, inconstancy, versatility), мінливість (caprice, changeability, inconsistency, inequality, mobility, mutation, uncertainty, variability, vicissitude). (various references)

Vietnamese		tính thay đổi, tính không kiên định (fickleness, instability, mercuriality, unsteadfastness), tính hay thay đổi (changeability, fickleness, flightiness, humoursomeness, inconstancy, unevenness, vagary, variability, variableness, volatility, waywardness, whimsicality, whimsicalness), tính biến đổi tính không bền, tính bất thường (indomitability, indomitableness, mercuriality, unwontedness, vagary). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "mutability": hypermutability, immutability. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Mutability" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: metabolity, mirabili, motability, Motobility, Motorbility, mutabilities, quotability. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "mutability" (pronounced 'Mu`ta*bil"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-i-i-l-m-t-t-u-y"
	-3 letters: ability, bulimia, mutably, utility.
	-4 letters: labium, tabuli, tautly, tibial, timbal, tymbal, ultima.
	-5 letters: album, alibi, ambit, amity, atilt, balmy, battu, batty, biali, bialy, bitty, blimy, built, butty, butyl, iambi, ilium, laity, lamby, limba, limbi, limby, limit, litai, lytta, malty, miaul, milia, milty, tibia, tubal.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-i-i-l-m-t-t-u-y"
	+2 letters: automobility, immutability, imputability.
	+3 letters: computability.
	+5 letters: hypermutability.
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