inconstancy

inconstancy
    n 1: unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous
         [syn: {faithlessness}, {falseness}, {fickleness},
         {inconstancy}]
    2: the quality of being changeable and variable [syn:
       {inconstancy}, {changefulness}] [ant: {constancy},
       {stability}]
    

Inconstancy \In*con"stan*cy\, n. [L. inconstantia.]
   The quality or state of being inconstant; lack of constancy;
   mutability; fickleness; variableness.
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         For unto knight there was no greater shame,
         Than lightness and inconstancie in love. --Spenser.
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128 Moby Thesaurus words for "inconstancy":
      Punic faith, ambitendency, ambivalence, arrhythmia, bad faith,
      barratry, breach of faith, breach of promise, breach of trust,
      brokenness, capriciousness, change of mind, changeability,
      changeableness, choppiness, coquettishness, dappleness,
      dereliction, desultoriness, deviability, deviation, difference,
      differentiation, disaffection, disconnectedness, discontinuity,
      disloyalty, disorder, divarication, divergence, diversification,
      double-mindedness, dubiety, dubiousness, eccentricity, erraticism,
      erraticness, faddishness, faddism, faithlessness, falseness,
      falsity, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fibrillation, fickleness,
      fitfulness, fits and starts, flightiness, fluctuation,
      freakishness, frivolousness, impulsiveness, inconsistency,
      indecision, indecisiveness, inequality, infidelity,
      infirmity of purpose, instability, intermittence, irregularity,
      irresolution, jerkiness, levity, lightness, mala fides,
      mercuriality, mercurialness, moodiness, motleyness, mugwumpery,
      mugwumpism, mutability, nonconformism, nonconformity,
      nonstandardization, nonuniformity, patchiness, pluralism,
      raggedness, recreancy, restlessness, roughness, second thoughts,
      shiftiness, skittishness, spasticity, sporadicity, sporadicness,
      spottiness, stagger, tergiversation, trothlessness, uncertainty,
      unconformism, unconformity, undecidedness, undependability,
      undeterminedness, unevenness, unfaith, unfaithfulness, unfixedness,
      unloyalty, unmethodicalness, unorthodoxy, unpredictability,
      unreliability, unsettledness, unsettlement, unstableness,
      unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, unsystematicness, untrueness,
      variability, variation, variegation, variety, variousness,
      versatility, volatility, wantonness, wavering, waywardness,
      whimsicality, wobble