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changefulness

changefulness noun: propensity to change.

Noun

changefulness (uncountable)

  1. Propensity to change.
    • I have cause to weep—I must weep over my own changefulness, and over the sweetest illusions of my youth.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 106
    • The faint fluctuations in the light as someone ironed and someone played and someone experimented and the refrigerator cycled on and off had been part of the dream. This changefulness, though barely noticeable, had been a torment. But it had stopped now.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

Origin of changefulness

From changeful + -ness.

Questions about changefulness

What does changefulness mean?
Changefulness means propensity to change.
What part of speech is changefulness?
Changefulness is a noun.

Words near changefulness in the dictionary

  1. changedale
  2. changedness
  3. changedst
  4. changeful
  5. changefully
  6. changefulness
  7. changeless
  8. changelessly
  9. changelessness
  10. changeline bridge
  11. changeline bridges

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