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IMMUTABILITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being incapable of mutation
Example:
Darwin challenged the fixity of species
Synonyms:
fixity; immutability; immutableness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("immutability" 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 "immutability"):
unalterability (the quality of not being alterable)
agelessness (the quality of being timeless and eternal)
Antonym:
mutability (the quality of being capable of mutation)
Derivation:
immutable (not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature)
