[ UK /kˈɒnstənsi/ ]
[ US /ˈkɑnstənsi/ ]
NOUN
  1. the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation
    early mariners relied on the constancy of the trade winds
  2. faithfulness and dependability in personal attachments (especially sexual fidelity)
  3. (psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation
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How To Use constancy In A Sentence

  • The need to respond to good with good, to generosity with generosity, constancy in her affections, patience and love of work are qualities that have been with Lena since childhood.
  • However, all of these points of constancy and change are brought to light for the most part due to the extreme redundancy of the film's fades and the organisational role they play.
  • The hotel stands on the shore of lake constancy.
  • All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light. James Joyce 
  • They refer to these processes as ‘dissipative structures’, where a constancy of change enables the persistence of the structure itself.
  • Unpredictability and inconstancy in parenting is one very important factor affecting a child negatively.
  • A parenting network can create a constancy of love one person can not generate.
  • In fact, metrology is concerned with nothing less than finding a method of being able to control the constancy of the international prototype metre, the basis of the whole metric system, so accurately that not only will every change, however small, which could possibly occur in it be accurately measured, but also if the prototype were entirely lost, it could nevertheless be reproduced so exactly that no microscope could ever reveal any divergence from the original prototype. Nobel Prize in Physics 1907 - Presentation Speech
  • It also depends on the constancy of its rate; meaning, that a watch gains or loses the exact same amount of time each day.
  • He kept in by being an oak, not by being a willow, by a constancy in virtue, not by a pliableness to vice. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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