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Immutable vs Irrevocable - What's the difference?

immutable | irrevocable |

As adjectives the difference between immutable and irrevocable

is that immutable is unable to be changed without exception while irrevocable is unable to be retracted or reversed; final.

As a noun immutable

is something that cannot be changed.

immutable

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Unable to be changed without exception.
    • The government has enacted an immutable law.
  • (programming, of a variable) Not able to be altered in the memory after its value is set initially, such as a constant.

    • Antonyms

    * mutable * nonimmutable

    Derived terms

    * strongly immutable * weakly immutable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that cannot be changed.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    irrevocable

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Unable to be retracted or reversed; final.
  • * , As You Like It act 1, sc. 3:
    • Firm and irrevocable is my doom
    Which I have pass'd upon her; she is banish'd.
  • * 1848 , , Dombey and Son , ch. 61:
    • On each face, wonder and fear were painted vividly; each so still and silent, looking at the other over the black gulf of the irrevocable past.
  • * 2005 April 28, , " Cycling: Cipo retires. Definitely. Absolutely. Yes. Probably," New York Times (retrieved 27 April 2014):
    • Once again, Mario Cipollini has announced his definite, absolute, unswerving and irrevocable decision to retire, and this time he means it. Probably.