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Mutability

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mu·ta·ble  (myt-bl)
adj.
1.
a. Capable of or subject to change or alteration.
b. Prone to frequent change; inconstant: mutable weather patterns.
2. Tending to undergo genetic mutation: a mutable organism; a mutable gene.
[Middle English, from Latin mtbilis, from mtre, to change; see mutate.]
muta·bili·ty n.
muta·bly adv.
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Noun1.mutability - the quality of being capable of mutation
mutableness
changeability, changeableness - the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change; "the changeableness of the weather"
alterability - the quality of being alterable
vicissitude - mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)
immutability, immutableness, fixity - the quality of being incapable of mutation; "Darwin challenged the fixity of species"
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These considerations, and the influence of personal confidences and attachments, would be likely to induce every new President to promote a change of men to fill the subordinate stations; and these causes together could not fail to occasion a disgraceful and ruinous mutability in the administration of the government.
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton by Hamilton, Alexander View in context
Why, it may be asked, have all the most eminent living naturalists and geologists rejected this view of the mutability of species?
The Origin of Species by Darwin, Charles View in context
The mutability in the public councils arising from a rapid succession of new members, however qualified they may be, points out, in the strongest manner, the necessity of some stable institution in the government.
Federalist Papers Authored by James Madison by Madison, James View in context
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