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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French immutabilité, itself borrowed from Latin immūtābilitās. By surface analysis, immutable + -ity.
Noun
immutability (usually uncountable, plural immutabilities)
- The state or quality of being immutable; immutableness.
2004, David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth, page 159:But, one might ask, how can the temporal event of God in our midst be the same as God's event to himself in his eternity if so absolute a distinction is drawn between the enarrable contents of history and the "eternal dynamism" of God's immutability, apatheia, and perfect fullness?
- (computing) The state of being unchangeable in the memory after creation.
Derived terms
Translations
The state or quality of being immutable
References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “immutability”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “immutability”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.