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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the quality of being subject to variation [syn: variability, variableness, variance] [ant: invariability, invariableness, invariance]
2: the quality of being uneven and lacking uniformity [syn: unevenness, variability] [ant: evenness, invariability]

Merriam Webster's

noun see variable I

U.S. Military Dictionary

(*) The manner in which the probability of damage to a specific target decreases with the distance from ground zero; or, in damage assessment, a mathematical factor introduced to average the effects of orientation, minor shielding, and uncertainty of target response to the effects considered.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Variability Va`ri*a*bil"i*ty, n. [Cf. F. variabilit['e].] 1. The quality or state of being variable; variableness. 2. (Biol.) The power possessed by living organisms, both animal and vegetable, of adapting themselves to modifications or changes in their environment, thus possibly giving rise to ultimate variation of structure or function.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see variable

Moby Thesaurus

arrhythmia, brokenness, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, choppiness, dappleness, desultoriness, deviability, deviation, difference, differentiation, disconnectedness, discontinuity, disorder, divarication, divergence, diversification, eccentricity, erraticism, erraticness, fibrillation, fickleness, fitfulness, fits and starts, flightiness, fluctuation, freakishness, impulsiveness, inconsistency, inconstancy, inequality, instability, intermittence, irregularity, jerkiness, mercuriality, moodiness, motleyness, mutability, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, patchiness, pluralism, raggedness, restlessness, roughness, shiftiness, spasticity, sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger, uncertainty, unconformism, unconformity, undependability, unevenness, unfixedness, unmethodicalness, unorthodoxy, unpredictability, unreliability, unsettledness, unstableness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, unsystematicness, variation, variegation, variety, variousness, versatility, wantonness, wavering, waywardness, whimsicality, wobble