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proteanism en · NOUN

Etymology

protean + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being easily, continuously, and vastly changeable, versatile, or able to take on many different forms.
    • Despite the proteanism of his intellect, there seems to be about his life work something serene [...] 1922, Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Frank Crane, Current Opinion, page 100: