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mutability
[myoo-tuh-bil-i-tee]
noun
the quality of being liable to undergo change or alteration.
With the realization of cancer's mutability, they now fear it might not be the same disease in everyone.
the quality of constantly changing; transient or transitory quality.
National borders can have a permanence that contrasts with the almost infinite mutability of the cultures contained within them.
Computers.Ìý(in object-oriented programming) the characteristic of an object having properties whose values can change while the object itself maintains a unique identity.
The mutability of the "sales report" object allows properties like sales period and salesperson to be updated without losing the reference to the report elsewhere in the application.
Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
- hypermutability noun
- hypermutableness noun
- nonmutability noun
- nonmutableness noun
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of mutability1
Example Sentences
The effect is of a delirious mutability, in which the poems coalesce almost in spite of themselves.
I think there’s a certain theme of mutability.
At one point, as I was peppering him with questions about his mutability, he gestured to consumers throughout the store.
As Hobbs has argued, the mutability of racial self-identification open to racially ambiguous people “reveals the bankruptcy of the race idea†while “offering a searing critique of racism†and “disarming racialized thinking.â€
The subjects’ mutability echoes the local artist’s slippery style, which incorporates collage and shifts easily from realism to expressionism.
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Related 51³Ô¹Ïs
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- fluctuationÌý
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- uncertaintyÌý
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- vulnerabilityÌý
- weaknessÌý
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