Synonyms 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.

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

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

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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"

   Synonyms:
   stableness, stability, perceptual constancy

   Antonyms:
   changefulness, inconstancy

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

   Synonyms:
   stability, perceptual constancy

   Antonyms:
   changefulness, inconstancy

3. constancynoun

   faithfulness and dependability in personal attachments (especially sexual fidelity)

   Synonyms:
   stability, perceptual constancy

   Antonyms:
   inconstancy, changefulness

Matched Categories

1. • Changelessness
   • Fidelity
   • Perception
   • Psychology

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1. constancynoun

   Synonyms:
   stability, immutability, unchangeableness, permanence

2. constancynoun

   Synonyms:
   uniformity, regularity

3. constancynoun

   Synonyms:
   inflexibility, steadiness, steadfastness, firmness, resolution, determination, decision, tenacity of purpose

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1. constancynoun

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "constancy":

   consistency

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How to use constancy in a sentence?

1. La Rochefoucauld:

   Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to each of the lover's qualities, giving preference now to one, now to another.

2. Benjamin Disraeli:

   The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

3. Walt Disney:

   Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

4. 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.”

5. 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.