UNALTERABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unalterability mean? 

• UNALTERABILITY (noun)
  The noun UNALTERABILITY has 2 senses:

1. the quality of not being alterable

2. the quality of being fixed and unchangeable

  Familiarity information: UNALTERABILITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNALTERABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of not being alterable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

fixity; immutability; immutableness (the quality of being incapable of mutation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unalterability"):

incurability (incapability of being altered in disposition or habits)

Antonym:

alterability (the quality of being alterable)

Derivation:

unalterable (remaining the same for indefinitely long times)

unalterable (not capable of being changed or altered)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being fixed and unchangeable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

fixedness; unalterability

Context example:

the fixedness of his gaze upset her

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

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

Derivation:

unalterable (remaining the same for indefinitely long times)

unalterable (not capable of being changed or altered)