kaleidoscopic

kaleidoscopic
/keuh luy'deuh skop"ik/, adj.
1. of, pertaining to, or created by a kaleidoscope.
2. changing form, pattern, color, etc., in a manner suggesting a kaleidoscope.
3. continually shifting from one set of relations to another; rapidly changing: the kaleidoscopic events of the past year.
[1840-50; KALEIDOSCOPE + -IC]
Syn. 3. changeable, fluctuating, protean, variable.

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