immutability

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French immutabilité, itself borrowed from Latin immūtābilitās. By surface analysis, immutable +‎ -ity.

Noun

immutability (usually uncountable, plural immutabilities)

1. 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?

2. (computing) The state of being unchangeable in the memory after creation.

Translations

The state or quality of being immutable

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: неизменност (bg) f (neizmennost)
• Dutch: onveranderlijkheid (nl) f
• Finnish: muuttumattomuus (fi)
• French: immuabilité (fr) f
• Galician: inmutabilidade (gl) f
• German: Unveränderlichkeit (de) f
• Italian: immutabilità (it) f
• Latin: immūtābilitās f
• Polish: niezmienność (pl) f
• Russian: неизме́нность (ru) f (neizménnostʹ)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

References

• “immutability”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “immutability”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.