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changelessness

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Noun1.changelessness - the property of remaining unchanged
durability, enduringness, lastingness, strength - permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force; "they advertised the durability of their products"
2.changelessnesschangelessness - the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged
unchangeability, unchangeableness, unchangingness
quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare
absoluteness - the quality of being absolute; "the absoluteness of the pope's decree could not be challenged"
constancy, stability - the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation; "early mariners relied on the constancy of the trade winds"
innateness - the quality of being innate
irreversibility - the quality of being irreversible (once done it cannot be changed)
invariableness, invariance, invariability - the quality of being resistant to variation
unalterability, fixedness - the quality of being fixed and unchangeable; "the fixedness of his gaze upset her"
unexchangeability - the quality of being incapable of exchange or interchange
immutability, immutableness, fixity - the quality of being incapable of mutation; "Darwin challenged the fixity of species"
changeability, changeableness - the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change; "the changeableness of the weather"


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Sula resists it because forced stasis (and its denotations of immobility, changelessness, and durability not elected by self) neither is her nature nor represents for her acceptable prospects.
A critical divination: reading Sula as ogbanje-abiku by Okonkwo, Christopher N. / African American Review
But it is the truly enlightened Buzz who points out the folly of this hopeless desire for changelessness in the real world--a Buzz who has had to fight being forced back into the cookie-cutter world of the hordes of his religious brethren, a Buzz who has deeply taken to heart Woody's own message that toys are meant to be played with, even broken, because that's the price you pay for the privilege of being alive and loved.
Toy Stories for Humanists? by Hall, Lucia K.B. / The Humanist
Hayes once put it, there was "something like awe for the seeming changelessness of the Habsburg monarch in the midst of an otherwise swiftly changing world.
Franz Josef Clinton by Garfinkle, Adam / The National Interest
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