incurableness
State beyond healing
The quality or state of being incurable—unable to be healed, corrected, or remedied.
The word applies to diseases beyond medical treatment, but also to habits, attitudes, or conditions resistant to change: the incurableness of his optimism, the incurableness of her addiction.
A rare and formal noun; incurability is more common.
Cannot be undone
- lastingContinuing through time
- enduringPersisting through time
- persistentContinuing despite difficulty
- permanentFixed without end
chronic · lifelong · unending · perpetual · unremitting · intractable · refractory · unresponsive
Beyond possibility of success
- futileIncapable of producing results
- desperateDriven by urgent need
- bleakDreary and without cheer
- grimHarsh and foreboding
despairing · resigned · helpless · powerless · inevitable · inescapable · unavoidable · doomed
Firmly refusing to yield
- intractableImpossible to manage
- unyieldingRefusing to give way
- deep-rootedFirmly and long established
- deep-seatedFirmly established within
ingrained · entrenched · unshakeable · immutable · unconquerable · inveterate · hardened · confirmed
irreversible
Cannot be undone
- lastingContinuing through time
- enduringPersisting through time
- persistentContinuing despite difficulty
permanent · chronic · lifelong · unending · perpetual · unremitting · intractable · refractory · unresponsive · unalterable
hopeless
Beyond possibility of success
grim · despairing · resigned · helpless · powerless · inevitable · inescapable · unavoidable · doomed · fatalistic
obstinate
Firmly refusing to yield
- intractableImpossible to manage
- unyieldingRefusing to give way
- deep-rootedFirmly and long established
deep-seated · ingrained · entrenched · unshakeable · immutable · unconquerable · inveterate · hardened · confirmed · incorrigible
incurablenesscurability
Potential for complete healing
treatability · recoverability · reversibility · manageability · operability
incurablenesstemporariness
Quality of limited duration
transience · impermanence · remediableness · reversibility · fixability
secure, cure, curable, incurable, manicure, curator, curative, pedicure, incurably