fickleness.

A tendency to change preferences, commitments, or affections readily and unreliably.

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Words that belong together

• fickleness of affection
• political fickleness

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The court’s fickleness frightened him more than its open enemies did.

She refused to mistake a considered change of mind for fickleness.

Usage notes

Primary category: psychological / character. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.