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variability
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun variability has 2 senses
- variability(n = noun.attribute) variableness, variance - the quality of being subject to variation; Array is a kind of changeability, changeableness
- variability(n = noun.attribute) unevenness - the quality of being uneven and lacking uniformity; Array is a kind of irregularity, unregularity
has particulars: variedness, variegation, personal equation
Antonym: invariability
Derived forms adjective variable3, adjective variable1
has particulars: rockiness, ruggedness, jaggedness, patchiness, waviness
Antonym: invariability
Derived form adjective variable2
CIDE DICTIONARY
variability, n. [Cf. F. variabilité.].
- The quality or state of being variable; variableness. [1913 Webster]
- 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]
THESAURUS
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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