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changefulness en · NOUN

Etymology

From changeful + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Propensity to change.
    • The faint fluctuations in the light as someone ironed and someone played and someone experimented and the refrigerator cycled on and off had been part of the dream. This changefulness, though barely noticeable, had been a torment. But it had stopped now. 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
    • Like Nijinsky he had an astounding jump, an extraordinary neck, an animal intensity, an actor’s changefulness. 2009 April 12, Alastair Macaulay, “‘This Probably Isn’t Possible, But ...’”, in New York Times:
    • I have cause to weep—I must weep over my own changefulness, and over the sweetest illusions of my youth. 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 106: