FICKLENESS Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

fickleness

noun

Definition of fickleness

as in volatility

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Recent Examples of fickleness Early also has a larger target in view, the fickleness of internet celebrity, a lure that often comes with self-harm. — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026 Harris drove in three runs in the 11-5 win, offering a reminder of baseball’s fickleness. — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 1 May 2026 Newsom explains his fickleness differently. — Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026 The fickleness of decisions relieved some and cursed others. — Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 23 Dec. 2025 That almost feline fickleness mostly has to do with the structure of the comet itself, which can change over time. — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025 For chasers like Olbinski, the monsoon’s fickleness is both a frustration and a thrill. — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025

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Noun

Alan Greenspan’s passing is useful not as the subject of my column, but as a marker of an era when many professionals believed large institutions could absorb volatility on their behalf.

— Henrik Totterman, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
Between flights and investor meetings, the executive carves out time to explain economic swings, market volatility, and tech trends, all while touting Blackstone’s global reach.

— Rachel Ventresca, Fortune, 5 July 2026

Definition of volatility

Noun

During the pandemic, Lowe, the father of two boys, wrestled with establishing safety measures at Benjamin, and he was struck by the arbitrariness of many health protocols.

— Eliza Griswold, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
To live in greater Los Angeles is to embrace the arbitrariness of it all.

— Meghan Daum, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026

Definition of arbitrariness

Noun

An American expat who has fully embraced British eccentricity and emotional opacity, Kimi Murdoch could be a Toni Collette character.

— Judy Berman, Time, 8 July 2026
But eccentricity is only the visible tip of the vast iceberg of Vibeke’s mental health issues, and soon Karl and Rikke are conferring in low whispers about whether, and when, to slip some ground-up sleeping pills into her drink.

— Jessica Kiang, Variety, 7 July 2026

Definition of eccentricity

Noun

These variations are common, as the heart rate tends to speed up and get more regular during periods of stress, and become slower and allow more irregularity when relaxed.

— Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
Others are chasing answers for chronic bloating, pain or irregularity that no doctor has been able to explain.

— Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 24 June 2026

Definition of irregularity

Noun

More specifically, genres, whether spoken or written, reflect the changeability of their formal characteristics in connection to changes in the situation and the actions relevant to these genres.

— Tham Thi Nguyen, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
Dripping glitter, shimmering adhesive crystals, dramatic slashes of eyeliner and smudges of eyeshadow—there was a playful, shifting experimentalism here, to signal the young characters’ changeability and ingenuity.

— Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2026

Definition of changeability

Noun

Use a primer with ingredients like hyaluronic acid and ceramides to keep dry skin or flakiness at bay.

— Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 3 July 2026
Women were complaining of redness, flakiness, or peeling with the use of tretinoin, a retinoid that promotes collagen synthesis and elastin renewal.

— Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 23 June 2026

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