chameleonizing

Verb

chameleonize (third-person singular simple present chameleonizes, present participle chameleonizing, simple past and past participle chameleonized)

1. (intransitive) To change colour or turn various colours; to be transformed (to suit changing circumstances).
   • King by your leaue, for in your kingſhippe I muſt leaue you, and repeate how from white to redde you camelionized.1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 51
2. (transitive) To cause to change colour or turn various colours; to transform (to suit changing circumstances).
   • Such a difference of opinion is passed over with a shrug of the shoulder, for some “regulars” practise empirically (clinically), and others scientifically. The “majority” and “Medical Ethics” contend that every practitioner shall sail under the colors he or she may select, but not use one which may...1878, “Homœopathy and Exclusiveness,” Letter to the editor, Medical Record, 28 September, 1878, p. 257
3. (reflexive) To transform oneself, as if changing colour like a chameleon.
   • […] after [reading] Virgil and Dante […] in an atmosphere trembling with eternal lamentations and on a soil drenched with unceasing showers of tears all the morning, every evening, lately, I am in a ball-room where flourishes a whip-syllabub of life, as if under our feet yawned no such realities....1841, Fanny Appleton Longfellow, Letter to Isaac Appleton Jewett dated 25 January, 1841, in Edward Wagenknecht (ed.), Mrs. Longfellow: Selected Letters and Journals of Fanny Appleton Longfellow, New...