IMMUTABLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immutableness mean? 

• IMMUTABLENESS (noun)
  The noun IMMUTABLENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being incapable of mutation

  Familiarity information: IMMUTABLENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMUTABLENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being incapable of mutation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

fixity; immutability; immutableness

Context example:

Darwin challenged the fixity of species

Hypernyms ("immutableness" 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 "immutableness"):

unalterability (the quality of not being alterable)

agelessness (the quality of being timeless and eternal)

Antonym:

mutableness (the quality of being capable of mutation)

Derivation:

immutable (not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature)