fickleness
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- n unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous
- The struggle to identify the critter displays not only the mystery of nature, but also the fickleness of the science of taxonomy.
- Finally, the disagreements over Kosovo expose the world's fickleness in determining which secessionist movements deserve international recognition.
- James Madison called the Senate a "fence" against the "fickleness and passion" of public opinion, and the rules of the place ensure that it is as cumbersome and restrictive as .