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/ɪnˈkɒn.stən.si/
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Noun
Lack of constancy; lack of consistency in thought, emotion or action.
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Although she loved him for many years, his inconstancy eventually drove her to another.
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'[…] But can we wonder that with such a husband to provoke inconstancy, and without a friend to advise or restrain her, (for my father lived only a few months after their marriage, and I was with my regiment in the East Indies), she should fall? […]'
Noun
unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous
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the quality of being changeable and variable
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