unalterableness

Quality of immutability

The quality of being unable to be changed or modified.

Unalterableness emphasizes permanence beyond ordinary fixity—laws, truths, or decisions that admit no revision: the unalterableness of physical constants, the unalterableness of his resolve.

The noun form of unalterable, it appears mainly in formal or philosophical contexts.

permanence

immutability

Inability to change

unchangeabilityInability to be modified
fixednessState of being stationary
indelibilityState of being unerasable

irreversibility · perpetuity · timelessness · lastingness · constancy · durability · indestructibility · everlastingness · eternality · imperishability

rigidity

inflexibility

Quality of being unbending

unyieldingnessRefusal to give way
immovabilityInability to be shifted
adamancyFirm refusal to yield

intransigence · obstinacy · stubbornness · unbendingness · hardness · stiffness · inelasticity · fixity · implacability · uncompromisingness

inherence

essentialness

Quality of being fundamental

innatenessBeing inherent from birth
inseparabilityInability to be divided
inalienabilityCannot be taken away

indivisibility · inextricability · embeddedness · rootedness · entrenchment

Opposites

capacity for change

unalterablenessalterability

Capacity to be changed

changeability · modifiability · mutability · variability · convertibility

rigidity vs. pliability

unalterablenessflexibility

Ability to adapt easily

malleability · adaptability · pliability · suppleness · elasticity

Family

alter, alternative, alternate, alteration, unaltered, altercation, unalterable, alterable, unalterably

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