labile

1. open to change; adaptable 2. in chemistry, constantly undergoing or likely to undergo change; unstable


I saw this word in a New Yorker review of Fiona Apple’s new album: “Apple, who is twenty-eight, is as musically sure-footed as she is emotionally labile.”

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