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constancy

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con·stan·cy  (knstn-s)
n.
1. Steadfastness, as in purpose or affection; faithfulness.
2. The condition or quality of being constant; changelessness.
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Noun1.constancy - the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation; "early mariners relied on the constancy of the trade winds"
unchangeability, unchangeableness, unchangingness, changelessness - the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged
invariance - the nature of a quantity or property or function that remains unchanged when a given transformation is applied to it; "the invariance of the configuration under translation"
metastability - the quality of a physical system that persists in its existing equilibrium when undisturbed (or only slightly disturbed) but able to pass to a more stable equilibrium when sufficiently disturbed
monotony - constancy of tone or pitch or inflection
changefulness, inconstancy - the quality of being changeable and variable
2.constancy - (psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation
perception - the process of perceiving
brightness constancy - the tendency for a visual object to be perceived as having the same brightness under widely different conditions of illumination
color constancy, colour constancy - the tendency for a color to look the same under widely different viewing conditions
shape constancy - the tendency to perceive the shape of a rigid object as constant despite differences in the viewing angle (and consequent differences in the shape of the pattern projected on the retina of the eye)
size constancy - the tendency to perceive the veridical size of a familiar object despite differences in their distance (and consequent differences in the size of the pattern projected on the retina of the eye)
psychological science, psychology - the science of mental life
3.constancy - faithfulness and dependability in personal attachments (especially sexual fidelity)
faithfulness, fidelity - the quality of being faithful

constancy
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constancy [ˈkɔnstənsɪ] nconstancia; fidelidad f


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Silly woman to expect constancy from so charming a man
They knew not each other's opinion, either its constancy or its change, on the one leading point of Anne's conduct, for the subject was never alluded to; but Anne, at seven-and-twenty, thought very differently from what she had been made to think at nineteen.
Nevertheless, Cedric, whose opinions of women's constancy was far from strong, persisted in using every means in his power to bring about the proposed match, in which he conceived he was rendering an important service to the Saxon cause.
 
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