irremediability
Cannot be fixed
Irremediability is the quality of being beyond remedy or repair.
What has irremediability cannot be fixed, cured, or corrected—the damage is permanent: The irremediability of his blindness forced him to reimagine his entire career.
The word appears most often in legal, medical, and philosophical contexts where distinguishing fixable from unfixable conditions matters.
State of being permanent
- indelibilityState of being unerasable
- perpetuityInfinite continuation of time
- enduranceSustained effort capacity
- fixednessState of being stationary
immutability · unalterability · constancy · lastingness · persistence · eternality · everlastingness · timelessness
Total absence of hope
- futilityLack of purpose
- helplessnessLacking ability to cope
- resignationVoluntary relinquishment of position
- defeatVictory over another
surrender · abandonment · desolation · despondency · dejection · bleakness · forlornness · disheartenment
State of being certain
- unavoidabilityState of being certain
- certaintyTotal absence of doubt
- inexorabilityUnyielding, unchangeable nature
- necessityIndispensable requirement
predetermination · fate · destiny · doom · foregone conclusion · ineluctability · unstoppability · sealed fate
At the endpoint
- untreatableCannot be healed
- inoperableCannot be repaired
- chronicPersisting over time
- progressiveFavoring reform and innovation
incurable · unresponsive · palliative · degenerative · fatal · end-stage · mortal · lethal
Doctrine of inevitable outcomes
- nihilismRejection of objective meaning
- determinismDoctrine of causal necessity
- stoicismUncomplaining acceptance of difficulty
- existentialRelating to existence itself
tragic · absurdism · acceptance · cosmic indifference · meaninglessness · Schopenhauer · entropy · theodicy
irreversibility
State of being permanent
- indelibilityState of being unerasable
- perpetuityInfinite continuation of time
- enduranceSustained effort capacity
fixedness · immutability · unalterability · constancy · lastingness · persistence · eternality · everlastingness · timelessness · unchangingness
despair
Total absence of hope
- futilityLack of purpose
- helplessnessLacking ability to cope
- resignationVoluntary relinquishment of position
defeat · surrender · abandonment · desolation · despondency · dejection · bleakness · forlornness · disheartenment · discouragement
inescapability
State of being certain
- unavoidabilityState of being certain
- certaintyTotal absence of doubt
- inexorabilityUnyielding, unchangeable nature
necessity · predetermination · fate · destiny · doom · foregone conclusion · ineluctability · unstoppability · sealed fate · no escape
terminal
At the endpoint
- untreatableCannot be healed
- inoperableCannot be repaired
- chronicPersisting over time
progressive · incurable · unresponsive · palliative · degenerative · fatal · end-stage · mortal · lethal
fatalism
Doctrine of inevitable outcomes
- nihilismRejection of objective meaning
- determinismDoctrine of causal necessity
- stoicismUncomplaining acceptance of difficulty
existential · tragic · absurdism · acceptance · cosmic indifference · meaninglessness · Schopenhauer · entropy · theodicy · human condition
irremediabilityfixability
Potential to be repaired
reparability · curability · correctability · repairability · treatability
irremediabilityreversibility
Can be undone
undoability · revocability · recoverability · redeemability · impermanence
irremediable, irremediably, remediable, remedy, remedial, remedially, remediate, remediation, remediless