Standard Lemma guide

changeability

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.

1

noun

Meaning 1

The quality of being changeable; changeableness.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

Examples

  • 1999, Neil Gaiman, Stardust, page 9 (2001 Perennial Edition). It was chilly that April, with the awkward changeability of English spring.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the changeableness of the weather

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: changeableness

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: quality

Narrower terms: commutability, transmutability, fluidity, fluidness, reversibility, shiftiness, inconstancy, changefulness, variability, variableness, variance, exchangeability, interchangeability, interchangeableness, fungibility, progressiveness, progressivity, mutability, mutableness

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kh2em-? Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱh2embos Proto-Celtic *kambosder. Gaulish cambionbor. Latin cambium Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Late Latin cambiō Late Latin cambiāreder. Old French changierder. Anglo-Norman chaungerbor. Middle English chaungen English change Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dhlom Proto-Indo-European *-dhlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Proto-Indo-European *-teh2 Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh2ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin -abilitas Middle French -abletébor. Middle English -ablete English -ability English changeability From change + -ability.