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UNALTERABILITY

Dictionary entry overview: What does unalterability mean?

• UNALTERABILITY (noun)
The noun UNALTERABILITY has 2 senses:

1. the quality of not being alterable
2. the quality of being fixed and unchangeable

Familiarity information: UNALTERABILITY used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• UNALTERABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The quality of not being alterable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("unalterability" is a kind of...):

fixity; immutability; immutableness (the quality of being incapable of mutation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unalterability"):

incurability (incapability of being altered in disposition or habits)

Antonym:

alterability (the quality of being alterable)

Sense 2

unalterability ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

The quality of being fixed and unchangeable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

unalterability; fixedness

Context example:

the fixedness of his gaze upset her

Hypernyms ("unalterability" is a kind of...):

changelessness; unchangeability; unchangeableness; unchangingness (the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged)

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