CHANGELESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does changeless mean? 

• CHANGELESS (adjective)
  The adjective CHANGELESS has 3 senses:

1. not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature

2. unvarying in nature

3. remaining the same for indefinitely long times

  Familiarity information: CHANGELESS used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHANGELESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature

Synonyms:

changeless; immutable

Context example:

the view of that time was that all species were immutable, created by God

Derivation:

changelessness (the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Unvarying in nature

Synonyms:

changeless; constant; invariant; unvarying

Context example:

principles of unvarying validity

Similar:

invariable (not liable to or capable of change)

Derivation:

changelessness (the property of remaining unchanged)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Remaining the same for indefinitely long times

Synonyms:

changeless; unalterable

Similar:

unchangeable (not changeable or subject to change)

Derivation:

changelessness (the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged)

 Context examples 

If I had happily possessed no knowledge of the place, and had seen it often in that changeless state, I should have pleased my fancy with many ingenious speculations, I dare say.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)