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词汇 fickleness
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Definition of fickleness in English:

fickleness

noun ˈfɪklnəsˈfɪkəlnəs
mass noun
  • Changeability, especially as regards one's loyalties or affections.

    the fickleness of youth
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Your tears stain the manuscript as your pen proclaims life's fickleness.
    • Shopping embodies and encourages some of the worst traits in human nature - greed, vanity and fickleness.
    • To some, this indicated a fickleness, a shallowness, an inverted snobbery, an unseemly arrested development.
    • They are continuing with a deeply dishonourable and undemocratic tradition of tightening the reins on what is presumed to be the fickleness and irrationality of democratic politics.
    • He still remains in touch with his fellow strikers, but the arcs of their career paths say much about the fickleness of the game, the way prospects are outwardly manipulated.
    Synonyms
    capriciousness, changeability, variability, volatility, vacillation, fitfulness, irregularity, tendency to blow hot and cold
    disloyalty, undependability, inconstancy, instability, unsteadiness, infidelity, unfaithfulness, faithlessness
    irresolution, flightiness, giddiness, skittishness, impulsiveness
    unpredictability, unpredictableness, randomness
    technical lability
    literary mutability

Definition of fickleness in US English:

fickleness

nounˈfikəlnəsˈfɪkəlnəs
  • Changeability, especially as regards one's loyalties or affections.

    the fickleness of youth
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Your tears stain the manuscript as your pen proclaims life's fickleness.
    • To some, this indicated a fickleness, a shallowness, an inverted snobbery, an unseemly arrested development.
    • He still remains in touch with his fellow strikers, but the arcs of their career paths say much about the fickleness of the game, the way prospects are outwardly manipulated.
    • Shopping embodies and encourages some of the worst traits in human nature - greed, vanity and fickleness.
    • They are continuing with a deeply dishonourable and undemocratic tradition of tightening the reins on what is presumed to be the fickleness and irrationality of democratic politics.
    Synonyms
    capriciousness, changeability, variability, volatility, vacillation, fitfulness, irregularity, tendency to blow hot and cold
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