'Inconstancy' definitions:
Definition of 'inconstancy'
(from WordNet)
noun
Unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous [syn: faithlessness, falseness, fickleness, inconstancy]
noun
The quality of being changeable and variable [syn: inconstancy, changefulness] [ant: constancy, stability]
Definition of 'Inconstancy'
From: GCIDE
- Inconstancy \In*con"stan*cy\, n. [L. inconstantia.] The quality or state of being inconstant; lack of constancy; mutability; fickleness; variableness. [1913 Webster]
- For unto knight there was no greater shame, Than lightness and inconstancie in love. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'inconstancy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ambitendency,
- ambivalence,
- arrhythmia,
- bad faith,
- barratry,
- breach of faith,
- breach of promise,
- breach of trust,
- brokenness,
- capriciousness,
- change of mind,
- changeability,
- changeableness,
- choppiness,
- coquettishness,
- dappleness,
- dereliction,
- desultoriness,
- deviability,
- deviation,
- difference,
- differentiation,
- disaffection,
- disconnectedness,
- discontinuity,
- disloyalty,
- disorder,
- divarication,
- divergence,
- diversification,
- double-mindedness,
- dubiety,
- dubiousness,
- eccentricity,
- erraticism,
- erraticness,
- faddishness,
- faddism,
- faithlessness,
- falseness,
- falsity,
- fence-sitting,
- fence-straddling,
- fibrillation,
- fickleness,
- fitfulness,
- fits and starts,
- flightiness,
- fluctuation,
- freakishness,
- frivolousness,
- impulsiveness,
- inconsistency,
- indecision,
- indecisiveness,
- inequality,
- infidelity,
- infirmity of purpose,
- instability,
- intermittence,
- irregularity,
- irresolution,
- jerkiness,
- levity,
- lightness,
- mala fides,
- mercuriality,
- mercurialness,
- moodiness,
- motleyness,
- mugwumpery,
- mugwumpism,
- mutability,
- nonconformism,
- nonconformity,
- nonstandardization,
- nonuniformity,
- patchiness,
- pluralism,
- Punic faith,
- raggedness,
- recreancy,
- restlessness,
- roughness,
- second thoughts,
- shiftiness,
- skittishness,
- spasticity,
- sporadicity,
- sporadicness,
- spottiness,
- stagger,
- tergiversation,
- trothlessness,
- uncertainty,
- unconformism,
- unconformity,
- undecidedness,
- undependability,
- undeterminedness,
- unevenness,
- unfaith,
- unfaithfulness,
- unfixedness,
- unloyalty,
- unmethodicalness,
- unorthodoxy,
- unpredictability,
- unreliability,
- unsettledness,
- unsettlement,
- unstableness,
- unsteadfastness,
- unsteadiness,
- unsystematicness,
- untrueness,
- variability,
- variation,
- variegation,
- variety,
- variousness,
- versatility,
- volatility,
- wantonness,
- wavering,
- waywardness,
- whimsicality,
- wobble