Constancy vs Unchangeableness - What's the difference?
constancy | unchangeableness | Related terms |
(uncountable) The quality of being constant; steadiness or faithfulness in action, affections, purpose, etc.
* 1871 , , Descent of Man , ch. 7 "On the Races of Man,"
(countable) An unchanging quality or characteristic of a person or thing.
* 1602 , , All's Well That Ends Well , act 1, sc. 2,
The state or quality of being unchangeable; immutability.
* Bishop Joseph Hall
Constancy is a related term of unchangeableness.
As nouns the difference between constancy and unchangeableness
is that constancy is (uncountable) the quality of being constant; steadiness or faithfulness in action, affections, purpose, etc while unchangeableness is the state or quality of being unchangeable; immutability.constancy
English
Noun
(constancies)- Constancy of character is what is chiefly valued and sought for by naturalists.
- younger spirits . . .
- whose constancies
- Expire before their fashions.
References
* * * * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989. * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996.unchangeableness
English
Noun
(-)- there are some dispositions blame-worthy in men, which are yet, in a right sense, holily ascribed unto God; as unchangeableness , and irrepentance.