SuaviloquyToday’s word

mutation

Mutation, n.

Etymology: [L. mutatio, fr. mutare to change: cf. F. mutation. See Mutable.]

Change; alteration, either in form or qualities. The vicissitude or mutations in the superior globe are no fit matter for this present argument. Bacon.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for mutation; he lists it under change.

Where he writes about it:

Mutation is a more formal word for change, often suggesting repeated or continual change; as, the mutations of fortune. — from change

Synonyms

changealterationconversiondiversityinnovationnoveltyregenerationrenewalrenewingrevolutiontransformationtransitiontransmutationvariationvarietyvicissitude

Antonyms

constancycontinuancefirmnessfixednessfixityidentityinvariabilitypermanencepersistencesteadinessunchangeablenessuniformity

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