[f. prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being changeable; mutability, variableness; inconstancy, fickleness.
c. 1430. Life St. Kath. (Gibbs MS.), 106. Þe blamefull chaungeablenesse of þe queene.
1651. Hobbes, Govt. & Soc., x. § 13. 161. According to the changeablenesse of mens mindes.
1695. Ld. Preston, Boeth., II. 49, note. Cyrus considering the Changeableness of Fortune, ordered the Fire which was made for the Execution to be extinguished; but a Shower from Heaven fell down, and put it out before he could be obeyed.
1709. Addison, Tatler, No. 121, ¶ 5. The changeableness of the Weather.
1876. Green, Short Hist., v. § 1 (1882), 215. The old sneer of the changeableness of woman.
