Constancy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Constancy \Con"stan*cy\, n. [L. constantia: cf. F. constance.
     See {Constant}.]
     1. The state or quality of being constant or steadfast;
        freedom from change; stability; fixedness; immutability;
        as, the constancy of God in his nature and attributes.
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     2. Fixedness or firmness of mind; persevering resolution;
        especially, firmness of mind under sufferings, steadiness
        in attachments, or perseverance in enterprise; stability;
        fidelity.
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              A fellow of plain uncoined constancy. --Shak.
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              Constancy and contempt of danger.     --Prescott.
  
     Syn: Fixedness; stability; firmness; steadiness; permanence;
          steadfastness; resolution. See {Firmness}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  constancy
       n 1: the quality of being free from change or variation [syn: {stability}]
            [ant: {inconstancy}]
       2: the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very
          similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations
          in the conditions of observation
       3: faithfulness in personal attachment (especially sexual
          fidelity)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  232 Moby Thesaurus words for "constancy":
     abidingness, accordance, adherence, adhesion, age, allegiance,
     antiquity, aplomb, application, assiduity, assiduousness,
     attachment, balance, balanced personality, bona fides, bond,
     bonne foi, bulldog tenacity, calm, ceaselessness, changelessness,
     chattering, clockwork regularity, coeternity, commitment,
     concentration, consecutiveness, consistency, consonance,
     constant flow, continualness, continuance, continuity,
     continuousness, cool, correspondence, daily round, dedication,
     defeat of time, defiance of time, devotedness, devotion, diligence,
     dingdong, diuturnity, dogged perseverance, doggedness, drone,
     durability, durableness, duration, endlessness, endurance,
     engrossment, equability, equanimity, equilibrium, eternalness,
     eternity, even pace, even tenor, evenness, ever-duringness,
     everlastingness, everness, faith, faithfulness, fastness, fealty,
     featurelessness, fidelity, firmness, firmness of mind, fixedness,
     flintiness, foreverness, frozenness, fullness, gaplessness,
     good faith, hardening, homage, homeostasis, homogeneity,
     immobility, immovability, immovableness, immutability,
     imperturbability, incessancy, indefatigability, indestructibility,
     industriousness, industry, infinite duration, infinity,
     inflexibility, insistence, insistency, interminability,
     invariability, invariableness, inveteracy, jointlessness,
     lastingness, long standing, long-lastingness, long-livedness,
     longevity, loyalty, maintenance, methodicalness, monolithism,
     monologue, monotone, monotonousness, monotony, nerve,
     never-endingness, noninterruption, obstinacy, orderliness,
     oscillation, patience, patience of Job, perdurability, perennation,
     perenniality, perennialness, permanence, permanency, perpetualness,
     perpetuity, perseverance, persistence, persistency,
     pertinaciousness, pertinacity, plenitude, plodding, plugging,
     preoccupation, pulsation, punctuality, quick fire, quiescence,
     rapid fire, rapid recurrence, rapid succession, rapidity,
     regularity, relentlessness, reliability, repetition, resolution,
     rigidity, rootedness, sameliness, sameness, sang-froid,
     seamlessness, secureness, security, sedulity, sedulousness,
     sempiternity, settledness, single-mindedness,
     singleness of purpose, singsong, slogging, smoothness, solidity,
     soundness, stability, stable equilibrium, stable state, staccato,
     stamina, standing, stasis, staunchness, staying power,
     steadfastness, steadiness, steady nerves, steady state, steeliness,
     stick-to-itiveness, stubbornness, stuttering, substantiality,
     successiveness, survival, survivance, sustainment,
     systematicalness, tattoo, tenaciousness, tenacity, tie,
     timelessness, tirelessness, torpor, treadmill, tried-and-trueness,
     triedness, troth, true blue, trueness, unbrokenness, unceasingness,
     unchangeability, unchangingness, undeflectability, undeviation,
     undifferentiation, uniformity, unintermission, unintermittedness,
     uninterruptedness, uninterruption, unity, unrelievedness,
     unremittingness, unruffledness, unshakable nerves, unshakableness,
     unswerving attention, unvariation, unyieldingness, vibration