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inconstancy

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

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Others see it as the derangements of a trapped and helpless man, one with a longstanding reputation for impatience and inconstancy, a leader incapable of making up his mind whether to move forward or back.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 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

The rationale for this inconstancy is that unfamiliar routines should perplex and discombobulate our bodies and muscles and prevent them from settling into a groove or reaching a training plateau.

From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2020

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2018

The words must have elicited from Poillon a knowing, if wry, smile; in the midst of his travails, Lawrence was looking ahead to the time when the cyclotron’s inconstancy would be merely a quaint memory.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik