MUTABILITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of being capable of mutation

Synonyms:

mutability; mutableness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("mutability" is a kind of...):

changeability; changeableness (the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mutability"):

alterability (the quality of being alterable)

vicissitude (mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another))

Antonym:

immutability (the quality of being incapable of mutation)

Derivation:

mutable (capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature)