constancy

1. 1.

   the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation

   “early mariners relied on the constancy of the trade winds”

   Synonymsstability

   Antonymsinconstancy

   Broaderchangelessness

   Narrowerinvariancemetastabilitymonotony
2. 2.

   (psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation

   Synonymsperceptual constancy

   Broaderperception

   Narrowerbrightness constancycolor constancyshape constancysize constancy

   psychology

3. 3.

   faithfulness and dependability in personal attachments (especially sexual fidelity)

   Broaderfidelity

Other forms of constancy

plural

constancies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about constancy

What does constancy mean?

constancy means "the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in constancy?

constancy has 3 syllables: con-stan-cy. The stress falls on "con". In IPA it is /ˈkɑnstənsi/.

What is another word for constancy?

Close synonyms include stability, perceptual constancy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of constancy?

The recorded antonyms are inconstancy.

Is constancy a common word?

constancy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with constancy?

1 word rhymes with constancy. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.