variability
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Variability \Va`ri*a*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. variabilit['e].]
1. The quality or state of being variable; variableness.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Biol.) The power possessed by living organisms, both
animal and vegetable, of adapting themselves to
modifications or changes in their environment, thus
possibly giving rise to ultimate variation of structure or
function.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
80 Moby Thesaurus words for "variability":
arrhythmia, brokenness, capriciousness, changeability,
changeableness, choppiness, dappleness, desultoriness, deviability,
deviation, difference, differentiation, disconnectedness,
discontinuity, disorder, divarication, divergence, diversification,
eccentricity, erraticism, erraticness, fibrillation, fickleness,
fitfulness, fits and starts, flightiness, fluctuation,
freakishness, impulsiveness, inconsistency, inconstancy,
inequality, instability, intermittence, irregularity, jerkiness,
mercuriality, moodiness, motleyness, mutability, nonconformism,
nonconformity, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, patchiness,
pluralism, raggedness, restlessness, roughness, shiftiness,
spasticity, sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger,
uncertainty, unconformism, unconformity, undependability,
unevenness, unfixedness, unmethodicalness, unorthodoxy,
unpredictability, unreliability, unsettledness, unstableness,
unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, unsystematicness, variation,
variegation, variety, variousness, versatility, wantonness,
wavering, waywardness, whimsicality, wobble
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