Word origin · etymology
Latin-derived adjective.
Mutable comes from Latin mutabilis, changeable, from mutare, to change; the name supplies the classification's changeability metaphor.
How we know · epistemology
Traditional classification
The grouping is inherited from zodiacal classification rules. Its association with changeability is symbolic, and should not be mistaken for a measured behavioral category.
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