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CHANGELESSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does changelessness mean? 

CHANGELESSNESS (noun)
  The noun CHANGELESSNESS has 2 senses:

1. the property of remaining unchangedplay

2. the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchangedplay

  Familiarity information: CHANGELESSNESS used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHANGELESSNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of remaining unchanged

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("changelessness" is a kind of...):

durability; enduringness; lastingness; strength (permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force)

Derivation:

changeless (unvarying in nature)


Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

changelessness; unchangeability; unchangeableness; unchangingness

Hypernyms ("changelessness" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "changelessness"):

absoluteness (the quality of being absolute)

constancy; stability (the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation)

innateness (the quality of being innate)

irreversibility (the quality of being irreversible (once done it cannot be changed))

invariability; invariableness; invariance (the quality of being resistant to variation)

fixedness; unalterability (the quality of being fixed and unchangeable)

unexchangeability (the quality of being incapable of exchange or interchange)

fixity; immutability; immutableness (the quality of being incapable of mutation)

Antonym:

changeableness (the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change)

Derivation:

changeless (remaining the same for indefinitely long times)

changeless (not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature)


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