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variableness

American  
[vair-ee-uh-buhl-nis] / ˈvɛər i ə bəl nɪs /

noun

  1. the state or quality of being variable.


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Just because the world is so full of variableness, our hearts' affections fasten with the tighter grip upon anything that seems to have the guarantees of permanence.

From A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by William Reed Huntington

Such persons, when right, are unstable and liable to variableness under the glamour of unknown ideas.

From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) by George Jacob Holyoake

God must be represented as He is—the author of good always, of evil never; also as having in him no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Sir John Alexander Hammerton

They had generally an inflexible faith in their own election, and in the ordering of their lives by a God who knew "neither variableness nor shadow of turning."

From Playing With Fire by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

The languages of highly cultivated nations are more subject to this innovation and variableness than the language of a people whose native penury receives but rare accessions.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

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