immutability
- noun
- /ɪˌmjuːtəˈbɪləti/
- More crucial than the exact content of traditional ideology is its very immutability.
Well, I think that's inside of immutability that in essence that it's valid that you can't, you can't change it, you can't counterfeit it and the like.
- Well, I think that's inside of immutability that in essence that it's valid that you can't, you can't change it, you can't counterfeit it and the like.
Examples
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The hopeless immutability in my existence at that time roused sudden and strange thoughts in me, like flashes of insanity.
Academic text (1996) -
In programming, immutability is essential for creating reliable code that avoids unintended side effects.
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A complete commitment to immutability is a commitment to never building anything real.
Academic text (2011) -
The thing that is hardest for people is to recognize the immutability of that fact.
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Now, if I may ask, Darren, do you believe, in the immutability of the human soul?
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Where my father found strength in fluidity and change, his brother found strength in constancy and immutability.
Fiction book (1991) -
The heterodox groups reject the principle of the immutability of the Torah and its laws.
Academic text (1999) -
An evident guardian of conscience and the vulnerable, he was also an ardent champion of the immutability of the tradition whenever it was magisterially defined.
Academic text (2009) -
First, the bishops' view of slavery as not inherently sinful depends in part on their theological commitments, including their understanding of the immutability of Catholic doctrine.
Academic text (2004) -
The concept of immutability in philosophy suggests that certain truths remain unchanged over time.
Synonyms
Something that stays the same while other things change
A state in which something does not move or change
The state of being impossible to change or take back
A state of not changing over time
The quality of not changing over time
A state of staying the same over time without becoming different
The quality of staying the same over time
A state when something stays the same over time
A state in which something stays the same
A state in which something like a rule cannot change
Being firmly held in place so it does not move or change
A record or system whose data cannot be changed after it is stored
The quality of stored information that cannot be changed
Antonyms
How Unchanging
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Immutability comes from the Latin parts in- 'not' and mutare 'to change', the same root you see in mutate. So it means 'not changeable', which is why we use it for something that stays the same.