"fickleness" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: ficklenesses [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English fikelnesse, equivalent to fickle + -ness. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|fikelnesse}} Middle English fikelnesse, {{suffix|en|fickle|ness}} fickle + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} fickleness (countable and uncountable, plural ficklenesses)
  1. The quality of being fickle. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (quality of being fickle): непостоянство (nepostojanstvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), onbetrouwbaarheid (Dutch), wispelturigheid (Dutch), Unbeständigkeit [feminine] (German), Wankelmut [masculine] (German), непосто́јаност (nepostójanost) [feminine] (Macedonian), lunefullhet [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), vankelmot [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), непостоянство (nepostojanstvo) (Russian), veleidad (Spanish), caygınlık (Turkish), döneklik (Turkish), kahpelik (Turkish), kaypaklık (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "quality of being fickle",
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          "sense": "quality of being fickle",
          "word": "caygınlık"
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          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "quality of being fickle",
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          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "quality of being fickle",
          "word": "kahpelik"
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          "sense": "quality of being fickle",
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      "word": "wispelturigheid"
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      "sense": "quality of being fickle",
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      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "quality of being fickle",
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        "masculine"
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      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "quality of being fickle",
      "tags": [
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      "roman": "nepostojanstvo",
      "sense": "quality of being fickle",
      "word": "непостоянство"
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "quality of being fickle",
      "word": "veleidad"
    },
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      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "quality of being fickle",
      "word": "caygınlık"
    },
    {
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      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "quality of being fickle",
      "word": "döneklik"
    },
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      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "quality of being fickle",
      "word": "kahpelik"
    },
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      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "quality of being fickle",
      "word": "kaypaklık"
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