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UNCHANGEABILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unchangeability mean?
• UNCHANGEABILITY (noun)
The noun UNCHANGEABILITY has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged
Familiarity information: UNCHANGEABILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
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 ("unchangeability" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unchangeability"):
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)
Derivation:
unchangeable (not changeable or subject to change)
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