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| Main Entry: | deviation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change, departure |
| Synonyms: | aberration, alteration, anomaly, breach, crotch, deflection, detour, difference, digression, discrepancy, disparity, divergence, diversion, fluctuation, fork, hereticism, inconsistency, irregularity, modification, shift, transgression, turning, variance, variation |
| Antonyms: | conformity, sameness, straightforwardness, uniformity |
| Main Entry: | flux |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of constant change |
| Synonyms: | alteration, change, flow, fluctuation, fluidity, instability, modification, motion, mutability, mutation, transition, unrest |
| Antonyms: | constancy, stability, steadiness |
| Main Entry: | hesitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | waiting; uncertainty |
| Synonyms: | averseness, dawdling, delay, delaying, demurral, doubt, dubiety, equivocation, faltering, fluctuation, fumbling, hemming and hawing, hesitancy, indecision, indecisiveness, indisposition, irresolution, misgiving, mistrust, oscillation, pause, procrastination, qualm, reluctance, scruple, skepticism, stammering, stumbling, stuttering, unwillingness, vacillation, wavering |
| Notes: | hesitancy is a quality or state, while hesitation is an act |
| Antonyms: | certainty, eagerness, go, perseverance, sureness |
| Main Entry: | instability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imbalance, inconstancy |
| Synonyms: | alternation, anxiety, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, disequilibrium, disquiet, fickleness, fitfulness, flightiness, fluctuation, fluidity, frailty, hesitation, immaturity, impermanence, inconsistency, inquietude, insecurity, irregularity, irresolution, mutability, oscillation, pliancy, precariousness, restlessness, shakiness, transience, uncertainty, unfixedness, unpredictability, unreliability, unsteadiness, vacillation, variability, volatility, vulnerability, wavering, weakness |
| Antonyms: | balance, constancy, soundness, stability, steadfastness |
| Main Entry: | motion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | movement, action |
| Synonyms: | act, advance, agitation, ambulation, body English, change, changing, direction, drift, dynamics, flow, fluctuation, flux, full swing, gesticulation, gesture, high sign, inclination, kinetics, locomotion, mobility, motility, move, oscillation, passage, passing, progress, sign, signal, stir, stirring, stream, sway, sweep, swing, tendency, travel, wave, wavering |
| Antonyms: | immobility, repose, rest, stagnation, stiffness, stillness |
| Main Entry: | swing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moving back and forth |
| Synonyms: | beat, cadence, cadency, fluctuation, lilt, measure, meter, motion, oscillation, rhythm, stroke, sway, swaying, tempo, undulation, vibration |
| Main Entry: | variance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difference |
| Synonyms: | about-face, argument, change, conflict, contention, deviation, difference of opinion, different strokes, disaccord, disagreement, discord, discrepancy, dissension, dissent, dissidence, disunity, divergence, diversity, division, flip-flop, fluctuation, incongruity, inconsistency, mid-course correction, mutation, separation, severing, strife, sundering, switch, transmogrification, unharmoniousness, variation, variety |
| Antonyms: | agreement |
| Main Entry: | variation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difference; alternative |
| Synonyms: | aberration, abnormality, adaptation, alteration, bend, break, change, contradistinction, contrast, curve, deflection, departure, departure from the norm, deviation, digression, discrepancy, disparity, displacement, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, distinction, divergence, diversification, diversity, exception, fluctuation, inequality, innovation, modification, mutation, novelty, shift, swerve, turn, unconformity, variety |
| Antonyms: | agreement, root, similarity, source |
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