irredeemability
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- noun
- /ˌɪrəˈdiməˌbɪlɪti/
- Many people believed that the irredeemability of some criminals made rehabilitation impossible.
Examples
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Women whose lifestyles fell outside these parameters of acceptable conduct were perceived as a danger to the moral and social fiber of the community, and their repeated offending was proof of their irredeemability.
Academic text (1993) -
However, while Robinson singles this moment out as a sign of Supergirl's irredeemability in its trivialization of her accomplishments (75-6), it is a moment chosen too late in Supergirl's career, since her exposure to the world marks a radical change in her relationship with her readers.
Academic text (2013) -
It reduces them to utter irredeemability for life.
Blog text (4) -
The irredeemability of his mistakes left him with few options for a fresh start.
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The community grappled with the irredeemability of the environmental damage caused by the factory.
Synonyms
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Cannot be changed back to how it was
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Being impossible to change or make better
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The state of being impossible to change or take back
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A situation where you cannot get something back, like deleted files or lost memories
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A document or right that cannot be removed by later legal action
A thing that cannot be fixed or made like new
Antonyms
How Redeemable
Surface Forms
Morphology
irredeemability = irredeemable (transparent) = ir + redeem + able + ity
The noun is formed regularly from the adjective 'irredeemable' with the abstract noun suffix '-ity', and the meaning follows directly from the adjective.
Etymology
Irredeemability breaks into parts: ir- 'not', redeem 'to buy back', and -ability 'the quality of being'. Think of it as something you cannot 'buy back' or fix, so irredeemability means it cannot be corrected or recovered.