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  • constancies (Noun)
    Plural of constancy.

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Noun

Plural: constancies

constancy - the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation; "early mariners relied on the constancy of the trade winds"
  stability
  changefulness, inconstancy the quality of being changeable and variable
  constant steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection; "a man constant in adherence to his ideals"; "a constant lover"; "constant as the northern star"
  inconstant likely to change frequently often without apparent or cogent reason; variable; "inconstant affections"; "an inconstant lover"; "swear not by...the inconstant moon"- Shakespeare
  unchangeability, unchangeableness, unchangingness, changelessness the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged
  invariance the nature of a quantity or property or function that remains unchanged when a given transformation is applied to it; "the invariance of the configuration under translation"
  metastability the quality of a physical system that persists in its existing equilibrium when undisturbed (or only slightly disturbed) but able to pass to a more stable equilibrium when sufficiently disturbed
constancy - (psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation
  perceptual constancy
  perception the process of perceiving
  psychological science, psychology the science of mental life
  brightness constancy the tendency for a visual object to be perceived as having the same brightness under widely different conditions of illumination
  color constancy, colour constancy the tendency for a color to look the same under widely different viewing conditions
  shape constancy the tendency to perceive the shape of a rigid object as constant despite differences in the viewing angle (and consequent differences in the shape of the pattern projected on the retina of the eye)
constancy - faithfulness and dependability in personal attachments (especially sexual fidelity)
  faithfulness, fidelity accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • constancy (n.)
    The state or quality of being constant or steadfast; freedom from change; stability; fixedness; immutability; as, the constancy of God in his nature and attributes.
  • constancy (n.)
    Fixedness or firmness of mind; persevering resolution; especially, firmness of mind under sufferings, steadiness in attachments, or perseverance in enterprise; stability; fidelity.

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  • constancy
    The quality of being free from change or variation.

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