IRREVERSIBILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does irreversibility mean? 

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

1. the quality of being irreversible (once done it cannot be changed)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRREVERSIBILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being irreversible (once done it cannot be changed)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

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

Antonym:

reversibility (the quality of being reversible in either direction)

Derivation:

irreversible (incapable of being reversed)