Meaning & use
variability
The quality of being likely to change, or the extent to which something differs across cases.
See it in a sentence
The study measured variability in blood pressure readings taken throughout the day.
Weather in the mountains shows enormous variability from one hour to the next.
A note on using this word
In statistics, variability specifically describes how spread out a set of data points is around the average.
Words with a similar meaning
fluctuationinconsistency
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Words with an opposite meaning
consistencystability
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