inconstancy
Other forms: inconstancies
When your friend promises to save you the last piece of gum but doesn't, you might curse her for her inconstancy. Inconstancy means changeability, not sticking to a predetermined course.
Inconstancy is a word often associated with love––if someone promises to love you forever in eighth grade but ends up falling for someone else in ninth, their behavior testifies to the inconstancy of their love. Or the inconstancy of youth. Or maybe just the inconstancy of love in general.
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the quality of being changeable and variablesynonyms: changefulness
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unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacheroussynonyms: faithlessness, falseness, fickleness
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This list covers Sonnet 18, Sonnet 73, Sonnet 29, "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," and "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars."
In the late 1920s, physicist Ernest Lawrence invented the cyclotron and ushered in a new era of industrial-scale scientific research.
Copernicus began to believe that the earth orbits the sun around 1507, but he delayed publication of his theory until he was about to die due to his fear of being accused of heresy. Here are 50 words from an excerpt from "The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies," published in 1543.