inconstancy

English

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Etymology

From in- +‎ constancy or inconstant +‎ -cy.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪnˈkɒn.stən.si/
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Noun

inconstancy (countable and uncountable, plural inconstancies)

  1. Lack of constancy; lack of consistency in thought, emotion or action.
    Although she loved him for many years, his inconstancy eventually drove her to another.
    • 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
      ' […] But can we wonder that with such a husband to provoke inconstancy, and without a friend to advise or restrain her, (for my father lived only a few months after their marriage, and I was with my regiment in the East Indies), she should fall? […] '

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