| Mutability | n. [ L. mutabilitas: cf. F. mutabilité. ] The quality of being mutable, or subject to change or alteration, either in form, state, or essential character; susceptibility of change; changeableness; inconstancy; variation. [ 1913 Webster ] Plato confessed that the heavens and the frame of the world are corporeal, and therefore subject to mutability. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Mutable | a. [ L. mutabilis, fr. mutare to change. See Move. ] 1. Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in form, qualities, or nature. [ 1913 Webster ] Things of the most accidental and mutable nature. South. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Changeable; inconstant; unsettled; unstable; fickle. “Most mutable wishes.” Byron. [ 1913 Webster ] Syn. -- Changeable; alterable; unstable; unsteady; unsettled; wavering; inconstant; variable; fickle. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Mutableness | n. The quality of being mutable. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Mutably | adv. Changeably. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| 空 | [そら, sora] (n) (1) empty air; sky; (2) { Buddh } shunya (emptiness, the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phemomenon); (3) (abbr) (See 空軍) air force; (n, adj-na) (4) fruitlessness; meaninglessness; (5) (See 五大・1) void (one of the five elements) #1,345 [Add to Longdo] |
| 芙蓉 | [ふよう;フヨウ, fuyou ; fuyou] (n) (1) (uk) cotton rose (Hibiscus mutabilis); Confederate rose; dixie rosemallow; (2) lotus blossom #13,046 [Add to Longdo] |
| 不変 | [ふへん, fuhen] (adj-na, n, adj-no) eternal; everlasting; unchangeable; immutable; immovable; constant; permanent; indestructible; (P) #19,623 [Add to Longdo] |
| 恒久不変 | [こうきゅうふへん, koukyuufuhen] (n) permanent and immutable [Add to Longdo] |
| 小信天翁 | [こあほうどり;コアホウドリ, koahoudori ; koahoudori] (n) (uk) Laysan albatross (Diomedea immutabilis) [Add to Longdo] |
| 酔芙蓉 | [すいふよう, suifuyou] (n) cotton rosemallow (Hibiscus mutabilis cv. Versicolor); Confederate rose [Add to Longdo] |
| 如露如電 | [にょろにょでん, nyoronyoden] (n) (obsc) { Buddh } existence (as we percieve it) is as mutable and incorporeal as is the morning dew or a flash of lightning [Add to Longdo] |
| 不易 | [ふえき, fueki] (adj-na, n) constancy; immutable [Add to Longdo] |
| 不易流行 | [ふえきりゅうこう, fuekiryuukou] (exp) the principle of fluidity and immutability in haiku; Haiku is both "fluid and transitory" and "eternal and immutable."; An interchange between the transient and the immutable is central to the soul of haiku. (Basho) [Add to Longdo] |
| 無常 | [むじょう, mujou] (adj-na, n, adj-no) uncertainty; transiency; impermanence; mutability [Add to Longdo] |