Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Liability to change; changeableness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Changeableness.

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  • noun The quality of being changeable; changeableness.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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

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Examples

  • Antonin Scalia, speaking against "changeability" and stressing "the whole antievolutionary purpose of a constitution," says "its whole purpose is to prevent change - to embed certain rights in such a manner that future generations cannot readily take them away.

    columbiatribune.com stories 2010

  • Antonin Scalia, speaking against "changeability" and stressing "the whole antievolutionary purpose of a constitution," says "its whole purpose is to prevent change -- to embed certain rights in such a manner that future generations cannot readily take them away.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

  • What measures of software quality attributes (e.g. defect rates, productivity, portability, changeability …) are robust enough to allow us to make valid comparisons between species of SE?

    What makes software engineering for climate models different? | Serendipity 2010

  • What measures of software quality attributes (e.g. defect rates, productivity, portability, changeability …) are robust enough to allow us to make valid comparisons between species of SE?

    steve | Serendipity 2010

  • What measures of software quality attributes (e.g. defect rates, productivity, portability, changeability …) are robust enough to allow us to make valid comparisons between species of SE?

    2010 March | Serendipity 2010

  • What measures of software quality attributes (e.g. defect rates, productivity, portability, changeability …) are robust enough to allow us to make valid comparisons between species of SE?

    Serendipity: What has software engineering got to do with climate change? 2010

  • What measures of software quality attributes (e.g. defect rates, productivity, portability, changeability …) are robust enough to allow us to make valid comparisons between species of SE?

    2010 March 24 | Serendipity 2010

  • Decades of changeability inured them to the pain and discomfort of the ideological gymnastics required to please Republican voters.

    Nancy L. Cohen: Why the GOP Circus Has Mattered Nancy L. Cohen 2011

  • While the findings of the Pew poll are not terribly new -- Republican gubernatorial candidates won independents overwhelmingly in New Jersey and Virginia in 2009 as did Sen. Scott Brown earlier this year in Massachusetts -- the level of changeability apparent in their voting patterns suggest they will keep the national political climate unstable for years to come.

    The amazingly unpredictable independent voter Chris Cillizza 2010

  • This changeability has served her well – she is not an actor who gets asked to repeat herself much, or is often typecast, though, if pushed, she thinks the thread running through her work is probably something about women being tested.

    The Saturday interview: Anne-Marie Duff 2011

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