† inchangeableadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Not changeable; unchangeable, immutable.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > [adjective] > unchangeable
unchangeablea1340
immovablec1374
unmovablec1384
immutable1412
unvariablec1425
indeclinable1432
unmutable?a1439
incommutablec1450
irrevocable1490
impermutable1528
irrecoverable1540
inalterable?1541
unreformable1549
inchangeable1583
beyond (also past, without) recall1597
incontrollable1605
invariable1607
unalterable1611
unrecallable1611
untransmutable1611
unreversable1616
involublea1618
irreversible1629
irreducible1633
inconvertible1646
eternal1685
intransmutable1691
unconvertible1700
unvoidable1725
unmodifiable1798
irreformable1812
irrevertible1822
irredeemable1839
true1845
influxible1871
irrevisable1884
intransformable1887
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie clxix. 1047 The calling of God..is without repentaunce, and inchaungeable.
1654 E. Wolley tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Curia Politiæ 116 As for the word of a King, it ought to be inchangeable.
Derivatives
inchangeaˈbility n. unchangeableness.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > [noun]
unchangeabilityc1400
equability1531
unchangeableness1548
constancy1593
immutability1593
immutableness1610
oneness1611
unvariableness1611
irrevocability1613
unalterableness1620
fixedness1626
irreversiblenessa1631
equableness1641
invariability1644
irrevocableness1649
undiminishableness1653
invariableness1654
incommutability1674
intransmutability1692
inalterability1715
inconvertibleness1727
inchangeability1773
unimprovability1814
irreversibility1824
inconvertibilitya1832
unarbitrarinessa1834
changelessness1840
inadaptability1840
unalterability1847
unvaryingness1851
monotone1856
unmodifiableness1876
unchangingness1878
unchangedness1880
irreformability1883
plateau1897
homoeostasis1926
invariance1939
plateauing1957
1773 W. Kenrick Rhetorical Gram. Eng. Lang. 47 in New Dict. Eng. Lang. Almost all our English writers,..possessed with this inchangeability of accent and quantity, tell us, that all accented syllables are long.
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adj.1583