Antonyms for constancy
ˈkɒn stən sicon·stan·cy

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1. constancy

   Industry is the quality, action, or habit of earnest, steady, and continued attention or devotion to any useful or productive work or task, manual or mental. Assiduity (Latin ad, to, and sedeo, sit), as the etymology suggests, sits down to a task until it is done. Diligence (Latin diligo, love, choose) invests more effort and exertion, with love of the work or deep interest in its accomplishment; application (Latin ad, to, and plico, fold) bends to its work and concentrates all one's powers upon it with utmost intensity; hence, application can hardly be as unremitting as assiduity. Constancy is a steady devotion of heart and principle. Patience works on in spite of annoyances; perseverance overcomes hindrances and difficulties; persistence strives relentlessly against opposition; persistence has very frequently an unfavorable meaning, implying that one persists in spite of considerations that should induce him to desist. Industry is diligence applied to some avocation, business, or profession. Labor and pains refer to the exertions of the worker and the tax upon him, while assiduity, perseverance, etc., refer to his continuance in the work.

   Antonyms:
   changeableness, fickleness, idleness, inattention, inconstancy, indolence, neglect, negligence, remissness, sloth

   Synonyms:
   application, assiduity, attention, diligence, effort, exertion, industry, intentness, labor, pains, patience, perseverance, persistence, sedulousness

Matched Categories

1. • Changelessness
   • Fidelity
   • Perception
   • Psychology

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1. constancy, stabilitynoun

   the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation

   "early mariners relied on the constancy of the trade winds"

   Antonyms:
   changefulness, inconstancy

   Synonyms:
   stableness, stability, perceptual constancy

2. constancy, perceptual constancynoun

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

   Antonyms:
   changefulness, inconstancy

   Synonyms:
   stability, perceptual constancy

3. constancynoun

   faithfulness and dependability in personal attachments (especially sexual fidelity)

   Antonyms:
   inconstancy, changefulness

   Synonyms:
   stability, perceptual constancy

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1. constancynoun

   Synonyms:
   steadfastness, stability, unchangeableness, resolution, loyalty, devotion, fidelity

How to use constancy in a sentence?

1. Benjamin Disraeli:

   The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

2. Benjamin Disraeli:

   The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

3. Jerrold Mundis:

   I am years gone from my family and miles away ... but they raid by telephone with jarring suddenness they have the cyclic constancy of a mortgage and they are inevitable and relentless, like the erosion of my remaining youth. Like certain frightening dreams, my family returns.

4. The Bidens:

   Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was more than a monarch. She defined an era, queen Elizabeth II was a stateswoman of unmatched dignity and constancy who deepened the bedrock Alliance between the United Kingdom and the United States. She helped make our relationship special.

5. Octavius Winslow (1808-1878):

   Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life.”

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