[f. next: see -ITY. Cf. med.L. transmūtabilitās (Aquinas, a. 1274), It. trasmutabilità (Florio, 1611), F. transmutabilité (Dict. Acad., 1762).] The quality of being transmutable; susceptibility of being changed into something else.
1611. Florio, Trasmutabilita, transmutability.
1669. W. Simpson, Hydrol. Chym., 60. The transmutability of one salt into another.
1879. trans. De Quatrefages’ Hum. Spec., 38. A variability which I fully accept, has nothing in common with the transmutability of Lamarck, Geoffroy, and Darwin.
1905. Speaker, 26 Aug., 499/1. In chemistry … transmutability has survived merely as a wild and hopeless surmise.
