ineliminable

Impossible to eradicate

Ineliminable describes something that cannot be removed, excluded, or gotten rid of.

The word appears mainly in philosophical and academic contexts, where it characterizes features or elements that persist no matter how you try to reduce or simplify a system: Consciousness may be an ineliminable aspect of human experience.

In everyday terms, something ineliminable is stubbornly, essentially present.

philosophical

irreducible

Cannot be simplified further

basic · primitive · axiomatic · foundational · bedrock · indispensable · constitutive · intrinsic · inherent · core

persistent

permanent

Fixed without end

constant · abiding · indelible · unremovable · fixed · entrenched · ingrained · embedded · rooted · immutable

unavoidable

inescapable

Impossible to avoid

fated · destined · inexorable · unpreventable · assured · bound · obligatory · compulsory · mandatory · ineluctable

Opposites
necessity/removability

ineliminableeliminable

Able to be removed

removable · dispensable · expendable · disposable · optional

permanence/optionality

ineliminablecontingent

Conditional or representative group

accidental · incidental · ancillary · peripheral · marginal

Family

eliminate, eliminated, eliminates, eliminating, elimination, eliminations, eliminator, eliminators, eliminatory

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