indefeasibility

English

Etymology

From indefeasible +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪndɪˌfiːzɪˈbɪlɪti/

Noun

indefeasibility (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being indefeasible, of being incapable of being defeated
   • 1861, John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism‎^[1]:

     By this useful accommodation of language, the character of indefeasibility attributed to justice is kept up, and we are saved from the necessity of maintaining that there can be laudable injustice.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 401:

     Siéyès had realized that this was an argument which only the nobility could win, and so began to edge towards a more functional approach which stressed the indefeasibility of individual rights in nature.