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mutability

[ myoo-tuh-bil-i-tee ]

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noun

the quality of being liable to undergo change or alteration:
With the realization of cancer's mutability, they now fear it might not be the same disease in everyone.
the quality of constantly changing; transient or transitory quality:
National borders can have a permanence that contrasts with the almost infinite mutability of the cultures contained within them.
Computers. (in object-oriented programming) the characteristic of an object having properties whose values can change while the object itself maintains a unique identity:
The mutability of the "sales report" object allows properties like sales period and salesperson to be updated without losing the reference to the report elsewhere in the application.

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hy·per·mu·ta·bil·i·ty noun
hy·per·mu·ta·ble·ness noun
non·mu·ta·bil·i·ty noun
non·mu·ta·ble·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of mutability¹

First recorded in 1400–50; from French mutabilité, from Latin mūtābilitāt-, stem of mūtābilitās “changeability,” equivalent to mūtābili(s) “changeable” ( mutable ( def ) ) + -tās -ty ²( def )

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