INVARIABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does invariability mean? 

• INVARIABILITY (noun)
  The noun INVARIABILITY has 2 senses:

1. a quality of uniformity and lack of variation

2. the quality of being resistant to variation

  Familiarity information: INVARIABILITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INVARIABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A quality of uniformity and lack of variation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

evenness; invariability

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

regularity (the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate)

Attribute:

even (being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with))

uneven (not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture)

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

smoothness (the quality of having a level and even surface)

Antonym:

variability (the quality of being uneven and lacking uniformity)

Derivation:

invariable (not liable to or capable of change)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being resistant to variation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

invariability; invariableness; invariance

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

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

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

unvariedness (characterized by an absence of variation)

Antonym:

variability (the quality of being subject to variation)

Derivation:

invariable (not liable to or capable of change)