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Variableness; changeableness; inconstancy; lack of smoothness or equability; deviation; unsteadiness, as of the weather, feelings, etc. Inequality of air is ever an enemy to health. Bacon.

Impossibility to be avoided or shunned; inevitableness. Shelford.

The quality or state of being inexpedient; want of fitness; unsuitableness to the end or object; impropriety; as, the inexpedience of some measures. It is not the rigor but the inexpediency of laws and acts of authority which makes them tyrannical. Paley.

quality of being infelicitous; unhappiness; misery; wretchedness; misfortune; want of suitableness or appropriateness. I. Watts. Whatever is the ignorance and infelicity of the present state, we were made wise and happy. Glanvill.

firmness of will or purpose; unbending pertinacity; steadfastness; resoluteness; unchangeableness; obstinacy. The inflexibility of mechanism. A. Baxter. That grave inflexibility of soul. Churchill. The purity and inflexibility of their faith. T. Warton.

Unsuitableness; unaptness; unfitness; inability. [Obs.] Barrow.

The quality or state of being inhospitable; inhospitableness; lack of hospitality. Bp. Hall.

The quality or state of being inimitable; inimitableness. Norris.

Unpleassantness; disagreeableness. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Want of opportunity; unseasonableness; inconvenience. [R.]

The state of being insanable or incurable; insanableness.

The state or quality of being insatiable; insatiableness. Eagerness for increase of possession deluges the soul, and we sink into the gulfs of insatiability. Rambler.

Insatiableness. T. Grander.

The quality or state of being inscrutable; inscrutableness.

The quality or state of being inseparable; inseparableness. Locke.

Lack of determination of fixedness; inconstancy; fickleness; mutability; changeableness; as, instability of character, temper, custom, etc. Addison.

The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.

Unseasonableness; untimeliness. [Obs.] Hales.

The state or quality of being interchangeable; interchangeableness.

The quality of being intolerable; intolerableness. [R.]