Roget's Thesaurus

#149. Changeableness

Nouns

changeableness etc. adj.; mutability, inconstancy; versatility, mobility; instability, unstable equilibrium; vacillation etc. (irresolution) 605; fluctuation, vicissitude; alternation etc. (oscillation) 314. restlessness etc. adj.. fidgets, disquiet; disquietude, inquietude; unrest; agitation etc. 315. moon, Proteus, chameleon, quicksilver, shifting sands, weathercock, harlequin, Cynthia of the minute, April showers; wheel of Fortune; transientness etc. 111.

Verbs

fluctuate, vary, waver, flounder, flicker, flitter, flit, flutter, shift, shuffle, shake, totter, tremble, vacillate, wamble, turn and turn about, ring the changes; sway to and fro, shift to and fro; change and change about; waffle, blow with the wind (irresolute) 605; oscillate etc. 314; vibrate between, two extremes, oscillate between, two extremes; alternate; have as many phases as the moon.

Adjectives

changeable, changeful; changing etc. 140; mutable, variable, checkered, ever changing; protean, proteiform; versatile. unstaid, inconstant; unsteady, unstable, unfixed, unsettled; fluctuating etc. v.; restless; agitated etc. 315; erratic, fickle; irresolute etc. 605; capricious etc. 608; touch and go; inconsonant, fitful, spasmodic; vibratory; vagrant, wayward; desultory; afloat; alternating; alterable, plastic, mobile; transient etc. 111; wavering.

Adverbs

seesaw etc. (oscillation) 314; off and on.

Phrases

a rolling stone gathers no moss;" pictra mossa non fa muschis [It.]; honores mutant mores [Lat.]; varium et mutabile semper femina [Lat.] [Vergil].