mutability

The quality or state of being mutable.

Noun

  1. The quality or state of being mutable.
    • He did indeed account somewhat unfairly for this sudden change; for besides some hard and unjust surmises concerning female fickleness and mutability, he began to suspect that he owed this want of civility to his want...
    • There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature. - 1819 November 10, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym;...

Origin

From Middle English mutabilite, from Old French mutabilite, from Latin mutabilitas; equivalent to mutable + -ity.

Forms

mutabilities

Derived

hypermutability paramutability