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mutability

.mju:tә'biliti3 senses · 84 ms
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noun/ˌmjuːtəˈbɪlɪti//ˌmjutəˈbɪlɪti/[ˌmjuɾəˈbɪləɾi]
  1. 1

    The quality or state of being mutable.countableuncountable

    • He did indeed account somewhat unfairly for this sudden change; for besides some hard and unjust surmises concerning female fickleness and mutability, he began to suspect that he owed this want of civility to his want of horses […]
    • There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature.

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