invariabilityn.
/ɪnˌvɛːrɪəˈbɪlɪti/ The quality or condition of being invariable; unchangeableness; constancy.
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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
1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xxxvii. 324 This invariability in the birdes operations, must proceed from a higher intellect.
a1771 R. Wood Ess. Homer (1775) 145 To inquire, how such an invariability in the modes of life should be peculiar to that part of the world.
1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. 275 The researches of Laplace and Lagrange have demonstrated the absolute invariability of the mean distance of each planet from the sun.
1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic x. 326 The assumed invariability of what are called ‘the laws of nature’ rests upon no foundation whatever but uniform experience.
1885 F. Temple Relations Relig. & Sci. i. 24 Having discovered invariability in any given case, we presume causation even when we cannot yet show it.
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