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inconstancy

  • a word derived from inconstant.
    inconstant
    adjective
    not constant; changeable; fickle; variable.

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“Then watch bewildered as the waves of our inconstancy lap them away, along with the footprints of the builder.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

They are the Americans who work in our military, a call to service that doesn’t indulge inconstancy or caprice.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 11, 2020

Yet the movie’s biggest drawback is its tonal inconstancy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2018

More worried about Beltran and inconstancy of Teixeira.

From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2015

For Darwin’s theory to work, heredity had to possess constancy and inconstancy, stability and mutation.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee