CHANGEABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does changeability mean? 

• CHANGEABILITY (noun)
  The noun CHANGEABILITY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CHANGEABILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHANGEABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

changeability; changeableness

Context example:

the changeableness of the weather

Hypernyms ("changeability" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Attribute:

changeable; changeful (such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change)

unchangeable (not changeable or subject to change)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "changeability"):

commutability; transmutability (the quality of being commutable)

fluidity; fluidness (a changeable quality)

reversibility (the quality of being reversible in either direction)

shiftiness (the quality of being changeable in direction)

changefulness; inconstancy (the quality of being changeable and variable)

variability; variableness; variance (the quality of being subject to variation)

exchangeability; fungibility; interchangeability; interchangeableness (the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange)

progressiveness; progressivity (advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods)

mutability; mutableness (the quality of being capable of mutation)

Derivation:

changeable (capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature)

changeable (subject to change)