absoluteness

State of being unconditional

Absoluteness is the quality of being absolute—complete, unconditional, or without limitation.

The word appears in philosophical and abstract contexts: the absoluteness of moral truth, the absoluteness of her conviction.

It emphasizes that something admits no exceptions, qualifications, or degrees.

permanence

immutability

Inability to change

fixedness · inalterability · perpetuity · timelessness · endurance · stability · eternality · changelessness · irreversibility · indestructibility

certainty

conviction

Firmly held belief

incontrovertibility · irrefutability · unquestionability · conclusiveness · definiteness · assurance · positiveness · veracity · dogmatism · infallibility

completeness

totality

Complete aggregate amount

comprehensiveness · all-encompassing · thoroughness · exhaustiveness · unconditional · unrestricted · unqualified · unlimited · unmitigated · outright

authority

sovereignty

Supreme independent authority

tyranny · totalitarianism · omnipotence · dictatorial · monarchical · unilateral · unchallengeable · incontestable · unappealable · divine right

purity

unadulterated

Completely unmixed, genuine

uncontaminated · untainted · refined · undiluted · undefiled · uncorrupted · immaculate · unblemished · quintessential · elemental

rigidity

inflexibility

Quality of being unbending

uncompromising · adamantine · inexorability · strictness · stringency · hardline · doctrinaire · fundamentalism · literalism · rigidness

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Opposites
degree of completeness

absolutenesspartiality

Unfair favor toward some

incompleteness · partialness · patchiness · narrowness · limitedness

conditionality

absolutenessrelativity

How observers differ

conditionality · relativeness · contingency · dependence · qualification

philosophical certainty

absolutenessrelativism

Context-dependent truth doctrine

subjectivity · uncertainty · variability · indeterminacy · fluidity

Family

absolute, absolutely, absolve, absolution, absolutism, absolutes, absolute zero, absolutions, absolute monarchy

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