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CHANGELESSNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged
Synonyms:
changelessness; unchangeability; unchangeableness; unchangingness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
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)
Sense 2
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)
