unalterablenessn.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈɔːlt(ə)rəblnəs/, /(ˌ)ʌnˈɒlt(ə)rəblnəs/, U.S. /ˌənˈɔlt(ə)rəb(ə)lnəs/, /ˌənˈɑlt(ə)rəb(ə)lnəs/ The quality of being unalterable.
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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
1620 Bp. J. Hall Honor Married Clergie i. xxii. 123 When he finds an vnalterablenesse in the determination of these degrees.
1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) 372 The unalterablenesse of Gods work.
1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. Thirty-nine Articles xxxiv. 372 The Second Branch of this Article is against the Unalterableness of Laws made in matters indifferent.
a1728 J. Woodward Attempt Nat. Hist. Fossils Eng. (1729) i. 186 The Unalterableness of the Corpuscles.
1817 W. Hazlitt Characters Shakespear's Plays 313 The unalterableness of his resolutions.
1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. III. xxv. 283 A bull declaring the unalterableness of every papal dogma.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt III. xxxiv. 6 Our minds get tricks and attitudes as our bodies do..and age stiffens them into unalterableness.
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