constancyn.

/ˈkɒnstənsi/

Etymology: < Latin constāntia: see constance n. and -ancy suffix.

The quality of being constant.

a. The state or quality of being unmoved in mind; steadfastness, firmness, endurance, fortitude.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > constancy or steadfastness > [noun]

steadfastnessa1000

anrednessOE

stead-stathelfastness?c1225

stability13..

steadfastshipc1320

traistnessa1340

constance1340

sadnessc1384

unmovablenessc1384

hardnessa1400

steadfastheadc1400

unmobletya1425

firmitya1450

constancy1526

constantness1530

firmitude?1541

firmness1553

stoutness1561

settledness1571

cleaving1580

solidity1607

immovableness1617

staunchness1623

fixedness1626

fixationa1631

unswayednessa1656

steadiness1663

sturdiness1675

unbendingness1824

indomitability1851

indomitableness1860

thick and thin1884

fixity1885

unshakability1907

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. AAAiiii Constancy is the vertue, wherby man or woman holdeth hole, & is nat broken by impaciencye.

1553 R. Eden in tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India Pref. sig. Ai^v I woulde wishe all men to be of such corage and constancie in these affayres.

1623 Mede in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. i. 291. III. 153 Thank God for the Princes constancie in Religion.

1709 A. Pope Corr. 17 July (1956) I. 66 I stood resign'd with a Stoical Constancy to endure ye worst of Evils.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits iv. 52 They have maintained constancy and self-equality for many ages.

†b. Determination, resolution (to do a thing).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > resolution or determination > [noun]

willOE

businessa1387

wilfulnessc1386

restc1400

point1477

appointmenta1535

firmitude?1541

resoluteness?1560

resolve1592

resolution1594

constancy1603

resolvance1603

resolvedness1611

intensiona1619

determinateness1652

decisiveness1714

determinedness1747

decision1770

decidedness1800

setness1818

determinativeness1821

determination1822

virtu1876

the courage of one's convictions or opinions1878

self-determination1890

adamancy1898

drivenness1902

adamance1925

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 986 Encreased his constancie to auoid a most certaine death.

1643 R. Baillie Let. 26 July (1841) II. 80 The constancie of the most of them to doe the Queen better service at London.

2. Steadfastness of attachment to a person or cause; faithfulness, fidelity.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > fidelity or loyalty > [noun] > firm loyalty or constancy

constance1340

firmitya1450

fastnessc1485

substantialness1530

constancy1548

firmnessa1627

1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cxciij^v What for the confidence that he had in her perfyte constancy..he determined..to marye with her.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) v. ii. 154 While thou liu'st, deare Kate, take a fellow of plaine and vncoyned Constancie .

1754 Bp. T. Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. i. 2 The Ground of their Constancy and Adherence to Christ.

a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 438 And talks right well of constancy and truth.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §6. 335 A constancy of friendship which won him a host of devoted adherents.

a. The quality of being invariable (see constant adj. 4 – 6); uniformity, unchangingness, regularity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > [noun]

unchangeabilityc1400

equability1531

unchangeableness1548

constancy1593

immutability1593

immutableness1610

oneness1611

unvariableness1611

irrevocability1613

unalterableness1620

fixedness1626

irreversiblenessa1631

equableness1641

invariability1644

irrevocableness1649

undiminishableness1653

invariableness1654

incommutability1674

intransmutability1692

inalterability1715

inconvertibleness1727

inchangeability1773

unimprovability1814

irreversibility1824

inconvertibilitya1832

unarbitrarinessa1834

changelessness1840

inadaptability1840

unalterability1847

unvaryingness1851

monotone1856

unmodifiableness1876

unchangingness1878

unchangedness1880

irreformability1883

plateau1897

homoeostasis1926

invariance1939

plateauing1957

the world > relative properties > relationship > uniformity > [noun]

evenlinesseOE

evennessa1398

equality1398

uniformity?a1475

equalness1545

uniformness1579

coherence1588

constancy1593

identity1611

oneness1611

holdinga1616

homogeneity1625

homogeny1626

unity1638

equiformity1646

self-consistencya1652

invariableness1654

homogeneousness1658

univocacy1658

sameness1743

consistency1787

self-similarity1847

consistence1850

flushnessa1878

homogenization1938

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. xv. 90 The lawes of God..of a different constitution from the former, in respect of the ones constancie, and the mutabilitie of the other.

a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. xi. §2. 313 The admirable order and incredible constancie of the Heauens.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 206 The polar wind blows with equal constancy in both the frigid zones.

1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. 239 The important fact of the constancy of the angles at which their faces meet.

1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) II. xxv. 365 The constancy of temperature in the phenomena of fusion and ebullition.

†b. Persistence, perseverance. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > perseverance or persistence > [noun]

beleaving1340

continuationc1374

improbityc1380

perseveringc1380

perseverancec1384

continuancec1405

perseverationa1500

patience1517

constancea1533

importunity1533

persistence1546

persisting1576

going-on1578

persistency1600

constancy1623

stickle1652

rubbing shift1675

doggedness1824

stick-to-itiveness1859

persistiveness1864

holdfastness1869

continuativeness1881

stick-to-itness1881

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 2 If you will now vnite in your Complaints, And force them with a Constancy .

c. Psychology. (See quot. 1952.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of perception > object of perception > [noun] > retention of characteristics

constancy1924

1924 R. M. Ogden tr. K. Koffka Growth of Mind v. 271 ‘Constancy-hypothesis’, according to which a certain sensation always corresponds to a certain stimulus just as soon as ever the capacity for the sensation in question has been attained.

1924 R. M. Ogden tr. K. Koffka Growth of Mind v. 295 This constancy of form becomes the child's mode of perception.

1929 W. Köhler Gestalt Psychol. (1930) iv. 93 Constancy of brightness and of size cannot be explained by the assumption of one-way conduction determining local sensory experience in terms of local stimulation.

1935 K. Koffka Princ. Gestalt Psychol. iii. 72 We may single out three characteristics of things which will..be constitutive of things: shaped boundedness, dynamic properties, and constancy.

1940 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Jan. 261 The ‘bundle’ and ‘constancy’ hypotheses.

1952 J. Drever Dict. Psychol. 49 Constancy phenomena, phenomena of perception, where psychological laws seem to cut across physical laws, so that perceived objects retain to some extent certain characteristics in relative independence of change in the stimuli affecting the sense organ.

1959 Chambers's Encycl. XI. 321/1 The perceptual constancies... All these effects in perception are technically known as the constancy phenomena. Constancy is seldom, if ever complete... Indeed the expression ‘tendency to constancy’ is more appropriate.

4. (with a) Something permanent, a permanency. for a constancy: as a permanent arrangement.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [adverb]

always fortha700

alwayeOE

oeOE

everOE

buten endea1000

echelichec1175

till doomsdayc1175

to timea1200

perdurablyc1275

in ayea1300

without endc1330

anytimea1375

for ay and oc1374

continually1382

perpetuallyc1385

ay-forthc1390

everlastinglyc1390

perpetualc1392

eternallyc1393

endlessa1400

in (also for, to) perpetuitya1400

always?c1425

without timec1425

endlesslya1450

sempiternlyc1450

infinitivec1470

aylastinglyc1475

everlastingc1475

incessantly1481

in saecula saeculorum1481

sempiternally1509

all days1533

for altogether1542

constantly1567

interminate?1567

incorruptibly1579

perpetuously1612

in perpetuum1613

eternal1614

unterminably1631

unfadinglya1672

unendingly1674

for a constancy1710

perennially1729

tarnally1790

imperishably1795

indefectibly1837

immortally1858

fadelessly1861

the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [adverb]

lastingly1372

duringly1413

abidinglyc1430

permanentlya1500

constantly1567

indelibly1611

indeficiently1622

subsistinglya1641

durably1646

for a constancy1710

en permanence1848

the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [noun] > permanent thing or person

perpetuity?1406

perseveranta1500

continuer1548

remainer1565

standard1639

holder-out1645

constancy1710

permanent1747

permanency1794

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 208. ⁋2 The Person most agreeable to a Man for a Constancy.

1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 26 Dec. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1477 Six, or at most seven hours' sleep is, for a constancy, as much as you or anybody can want.

c1750 W. Stroud Mem. 52 A Chariot, which I hired for a Constancy, or at least for the chiefest Part of..seven weeks.

1888 Scotsman 8 Feb. 10/6 (advt.) A constancy and liberal wages for a good workman.

†5. Certainty. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > [noun]

mid iwissea1000

certaina1300

certaintya1340

sickerness1390

sickerty1405

sureness1419

redinessc1425

suretyc1425

surenessa1475

assurancec1485

certitude1538

constancy1563

assuredness1570

certainness1571

confirmedness1667

1563 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 213 I..knowing the constantie of Death and y^e vnconstantie of the houre and time.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 26 More witnesseth than fancies images, And growes to something of great constancy.

†6. Physical firmness, solidity; = consistence n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > [noun]

thicknessc1000

consistency1594

consistence1626

constancy1794

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 212 In passing from its liquid state to its concretion, to its constancy and firmness.

7. Ecology. The proportion of a particular species found in an ecological community.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > balance of nature > population > [noun] > type of > proportion of a species found in

constancy1926

1926 A. G. Tansley & T. F. Chipp Aims & Methods Study Vegetation ii. 10 The species may also be considered in regard to..their constancy in an association, i.e., of a large number of sample areas, the percentage number in which the given species occurs.

1950 Jrnl. Ecol. 38 72 Several species of low constancy on the less exposed stands acquire high constancy on the more exposed.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	constancy
释义	constancyn. /ˈkɒnstənsi/ Etymology: < Latin constāntia: see constance n. and -ancy suffix. The quality of being constant. 1. a. The state or quality of being unmoved in mind; steadfastness, firmness, endurance, fortitude. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > constancy or steadfastness > [noun] steadfastnessa1000 anrednessOE stead-stathelfastness?c1225 stability13.. steadfastshipc1320 traistnessa1340 constance1340 sadnessc1384 unmovablenessc1384 hardnessa1400 steadfastheadc1400 unmobletya1425 firmitya1450 constancy1526 constantness1530 firmitude?1541 firmness1553 stoutness1561 settledness1571 cleaving1580 solidity1607 immovableness1617 staunchness1623 fixedness1626 fixationa1631 unswayednessa1656 steadiness1663 sturdiness1675 unbendingness1824 indomitability1851 indomitableness1860 thick and thin1884 fixity1885 unshakability1907 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. AAAiiii Constancy is the vertue, wherby man or woman holdeth hole, & is nat broken by impaciencye. 1553 R. Eden in tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India Pref. sig. Ai^v I woulde wishe all men to be of such corage and constancie in these affayres. 1623 Mede in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. i. 291. III. 153 Thank God for the Princes constancie in Religion. 1709 A. Pope Corr. 17 July (1956) I. 66 I stood resign'd with a Stoical Constancy to endure ye worst of Evils. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits iv. 52 They have maintained constancy and self-equality for many ages. †b. Determination, resolution (to do a thing). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > resolution or determination > [noun] willOE businessa1387 wilfulnessc1386 restc1400 point1477 appointmenta1535 firmitude?1541 resoluteness?1560 resolve1592 resolution1594 constancy1603 resolvance1603 resolvedness1611 intensiona1619 determinateness1652 decisiveness1714 determinedness1747 decision1770 decidedness1800 setness1818 determinativeness1821 determination1822 virtu1876 the courage of one's convictions or opinions1878 self-determination1890 adamancy1898 drivenness1902 adamance1925 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 986 Encreased his constancie to auoid a most certaine death. 1643 R. Baillie Let. 26 July (1841) II. 80 The constancie of the most of them to doe the Queen better service at London. 2. Steadfastness of attachment to a person or cause; faithfulness, fidelity. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > fidelity or loyalty > [noun] > firm loyalty or constancy constance1340 firmitya1450 fastnessc1485 substantialness1530 constancy1548 firmnessa1627 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cxciij^v What for the confidence that he had in her perfyte constancy..he determined..to marye with her. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) v. ii. 154 While thou liu'st, deare Kate, take a fellow of plaine and vncoyned Constancie . View more context for this quotation 1754 Bp. T. Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. i. 2 The Ground of their Constancy and Adherence to Christ. a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 438 And talks right well of constancy and truth. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §6. 335 A constancy of friendship which won him a host of devoted adherents. 3. a. The quality of being invariable (see constant adj. 4 – 6); uniformity, unchangingness, regularity. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > [noun] unchangeabilityc1400 equability1531 unchangeableness1548 constancy1593 immutability1593 immutableness1610 oneness1611 unvariableness1611 irrevocability1613 unalterableness1620 fixedness1626 irreversiblenessa1631 equableness1641 invariability1644 irrevocableness1649 undiminishableness1653 invariableness1654 incommutability1674 intransmutability1692 inalterability1715 inconvertibleness1727 inchangeability1773 unimprovability1814 irreversibility1824 inconvertibilitya1832 unarbitrarinessa1834 changelessness1840 inadaptability1840 unalterability1847 unvaryingness1851 monotone1856 unmodifiableness1876 unchangingness1878 unchangedness1880 irreformability1883 plateau1897 homoeostasis1926 invariance1939 plateauing1957 the world > relative properties > relationship > uniformity > [noun] evenlinesseOE evennessa1398 equality1398 uniformity?a1475 equalness1545 uniformness1579 coherence1588 constancy1593 identity1611 oneness1611 holdinga1616 homogeneity1625 homogeny1626 unity1638 equiformity1646 self-consistencya1652 invariableness1654 homogeneousness1658 univocacy1658 sameness1743 consistency1787 self-similarity1847 consistence1850 flushnessa1878 homogenization1938 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. xv. 90 The lawes of God..of a different constitution from the former, in respect of the ones constancie, and the mutabilitie of the other. a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. xi. §2. 313 The admirable order and incredible constancie of the Heauens. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 206 The polar wind blows with equal constancy in both the frigid zones. 1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. 239 The important fact of the constancy of the angles at which their faces meet. 1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) II. xxv. 365 The constancy of temperature in the phenomena of fusion and ebullition. †b. Persistence, perseverance. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > perseverance or persistence > [noun] beleaving1340 continuationc1374 improbityc1380 perseveringc1380 perseverancec1384 continuancec1405 perseverationa1500 patience1517 constancea1533 importunity1533 persistence1546 persisting1576 going-on1578 persistency1600 constancy1623 stickle1652 rubbing shift1675 doggedness1824 stick-to-itiveness1859 persistiveness1864 holdfastness1869 continuativeness1881 stick-to-itness1881 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 2 If you will now vnite in your Complaints, And force them with a Constancy . View more context for this quotation c. Psychology. (See quot. 1952.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of perception > object of perception > [noun] > retention of characteristics constancy1924 1924 R. M. Ogden tr. K. Koffka Growth of Mind v. 271 ‘Constancy-hypothesis’, according to which a certain sensation always corresponds to a certain stimulus just as soon as ever the capacity for the sensation in question has been attained. 1924 R. M. Ogden tr. K. Koffka Growth of Mind v. 295 This constancy of form becomes the child's mode of perception. 1929 W. Köhler Gestalt Psychol. (1930) iv. 93 Constancy of brightness and of size cannot be explained by the assumption of one-way conduction determining local sensory experience in terms of local stimulation. 1935 K. Koffka Princ. Gestalt Psychol. iii. 72 We may single out three characteristics of things which will..be constitutive of things: shaped boundedness, dynamic properties, and constancy. 1940 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Jan. 261 The ‘bundle’ and ‘constancy’ hypotheses. 1952 J. Drever Dict. Psychol. 49 Constancy phenomena, phenomena of perception, where psychological laws seem to cut across physical laws, so that perceived objects retain to some extent certain characteristics in relative independence of change in the stimuli affecting the sense organ. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. XI. 321/1 The perceptual constancies... All these effects in perception are technically known as the constancy phenomena. Constancy is seldom, if ever complete... Indeed the expression ‘tendency to constancy’ is more appropriate. 4. (with a) Something permanent, a permanency. for a constancy: as a permanent arrangement. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [adverb] always fortha700 alwayeOE oeOE everOE buten endea1000 echelichec1175 till doomsdayc1175 to timea1200 perdurablyc1275 in ayea1300 without endc1330 anytimea1375 for ay and oc1374 continually1382 perpetuallyc1385 ay-forthc1390 everlastinglyc1390 perpetualc1392 eternallyc1393 endlessa1400 in (also for, to) perpetuitya1400 always?c1425 without timec1425 endlesslya1450 sempiternlyc1450 infinitivec1470 aylastinglyc1475 everlastingc1475 incessantly1481 in saecula saeculorum1481 sempiternally1509 all days1533 for altogether1542 constantly1567 interminate?1567 incorruptibly1579 perpetuously1612 in perpetuum1613 eternal1614 unterminably1631 unfadinglya1672 unendingly1674 for a constancy1710 perennially1729 tarnally1790 imperishably1795 indefectibly1837 immortally1858 fadelessly1861 the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [adverb] lastingly1372 duringly1413 abidinglyc1430 permanentlya1500 constantly1567 indelibly1611 indeficiently1622 subsistinglya1641 durably1646 for a constancy1710 en permanence1848 the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [noun] > permanent thing or person perpetuity?1406 perseveranta1500 continuer1548 remainer1565 standard1639 holder-out1645 constancy1710 permanent1747 permanency1794 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 208. ⁋2 The Person most agreeable to a Man for a Constancy. 1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 26 Dec. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1477 Six, or at most seven hours' sleep is, for a constancy, as much as you or anybody can want. c1750 W. Stroud Mem. 52 A Chariot, which I hired for a Constancy, or at least for the chiefest Part of..seven weeks. 1888 Scotsman 8 Feb. 10/6 (advt.) A constancy and liberal wages for a good workman. †5. Certainty. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > [noun] mid iwissea1000 certaina1300 certaintya1340 sickerness1390 sickerty1405 sureness1419 redinessc1425 suretyc1425 surenessa1475 assurancec1485 certitude1538 constancy1563 assuredness1570 certainness1571 confirmedness1667 1563 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 213 I..knowing the constantie of Death and y^e vnconstantie of the houre and time. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 26 More witnesseth than fancies images, And growes to something of great constancy. View more context for this quotation †6. Physical firmness, solidity; = consistence n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > [noun] thicknessc1000 consistency1594 consistence1626 constancy1794 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 212 In passing from its liquid state to its concretion, to its constancy and firmness. 7. Ecology. The proportion of a particular species found in an ecological community. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > balance of nature > population > [noun] > type of > proportion of a species found in constancy1926 1926 A. G. Tansley & T. F. Chipp Aims & Methods Study Vegetation ii. 10 The species may also be considered in regard to..their constancy in an association, i.e., of a large number of sample areas, the percentage number in which the given species occurs. 1950 Jrnl. Ecol. 38 72 Several species of low constancy on the less exposed stands acquire high constancy on the more exposed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1526
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