fickleness

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Recent Examples of fickleness For chasers like Olbinski, the monsoon’s fickleness is both a frustration and a thrill. Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fickleness
Noun
  • The dispute highlights the deep mistrust and volatility defining relations between the two governments, with both sides reinforcing military deployments and intensifying rhetoric, raising fears of direct confrontation.
    Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Fund managers are taking a cautious stance as the fourth quarter gets underway, opting to go underweight in risk assets in favor of defensive plays with lower volatility.
    Tasmin Lockwood, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The sense of arbitrariness that had previously bewildered and frustrated me was drowned out by excitement and sheer aesthetic pleasure.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Scientific and engineering advances don't do well in the face of such wild swings and inconstancy.
    Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Europeans, awakened to the danger of American inconstancy, are scrambling to spend trillions more on defense in coming years.
    Adam Rasmi, Time, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • The same goes for Lanthimos’ ability to draw performances out of actors that suggest a freedom to indulge in eccentricity, the stranger the better.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Rhoden and her colleagues studied how the eccentricity could have changed to recreate what is seen at Mimas today.
    Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Lately, Parker has also embraced the wabi-sabi ideal—that there is glory in irregularity, in something being vaguely misshapen.
    Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Election observers noted numerous irregularities in the polls, which were widely dismissed by the international community as neither free nor fair.
    Kate Bartlett, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • That changeability brings a need for equally adaptable clothing.
    Nick Hendry, Robb Report, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The point is not that these are simply interpretations of the world, because an interpretation implies a degree of conscious awareness and changeability that closure often lacks in the moment.
    Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • There’s no tackiness or flakiness and this particular shade for me, just makes my lips look and feel so pouty and glossy — with a shine that lasts.
    Stixx Mathews, Essence, 21 Oct. 2025
  • But agitation, redness, and dry flakiness aren’t unheard of.
    Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2025

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“Fickleness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fickleness. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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