transmute
verb (used with or without object)
to change from one nature, substance, form, or condition into another; transform.
transmutability
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a word derived from
transmute.
Example Sentences
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Part of the reason the symbolism of the car endures in the American mind is because of its transmutability.
From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2018
The belief in it and in the transmutability of matter was by no means absurd, but rather it must be counted as a phase in the development of human thought.
From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Smith Ely Jelliffe
It would be, on the contrary, a fact precisely corresponding with the actual and well-known transmutability of speech-sounds into each other as occurs in the phenomena of Etymology and Comparative Philology.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
The transmutability of one element into another indefinitely, would not, in any but a certain absolute or transcendental sense, cause the Elements to be regarded as one, or as any less number than now.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
This would account for the transmutability of the two sets of feelings.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Havelock Ellis
