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The quality of being incapable of mutation
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immutability
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being incapable of mutation; "Darwin challenged the fixity of species" [syn: immutableness , fixity ] [ant: mutability , mutability ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Latin immutabilitas , from immutabilis (see immutable ).\n\nNought may endure but Mutability. [Shelley]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Immutability \Im*mu`ta*bil"i*ty\, n. [L. immutabilitas: cf. F. immutabilit['e].] The state or quality of being immutable; immutableness. --Heb. vi. 17.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Immutability of God is an attribute where “God is unchanging in his character, will, and covenant promises." The Westminster Shorter Catechism says, ’ God is a spirit, whose being, wisdom power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth are infinite, eternal, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The state or quality of being immutable; immutableness. 2 (context computer English) The state of being unchangeable in the memory after creation.
Usage examples of immutability.
Louis Quinze drawing-room, with its small balcony, always flowered with hanging geraniums in the summer, and now with pots of Lilium Auratum, he was struck by the immutability of human affairs.
He no despot, because He exercises only His sovereign right, and His own essential wisdom, goodness, justness, rectitude, and immutability, are the highest of all conceivable guaranties that His exercise of His power will always be right, wise, just, and good.
Let us now see whether the several facts and rules relating to the geological succession of organic beings, better accord with the common view of the immutability of species, or with that of their slow and gradual modification, through descent and natural selection.
How is this compatible with that perfect immutability and simplicity which all true Theists ascribe to the Deity?
Arncaster went to the Gypsies, refunded the balance of whatever sum they had agreed upon for rent, and had undoubtedly turned a deaf ear to any protests they might have made (Halleck was thinking specifically of the young man with the bowling pins, who apparently had not as yet comprehended the immutability of his station in life).