Impervious vs Immutable - What's the difference?
impervious | immutable |
Unaffected or unable to be affected by.
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Preventive of any penetration; impenetrable, impermeable, particularly of water.
Immune to damage or effect.
Unable to be changed without exception.
(programming, of a variable) Not able to be altered in the memory after its value is set initially, such as a constant.
As adjectives the difference between impervious and immutable
is that impervious is unaffected or unable to be affected by while immutable is unable to be changed without exception.As a noun immutable is
something that cannot be changed.impervious
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(en adjective)Antonyms
* perviousDerived terms
* imperviously * imperviousnessimmutable
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Adjective
(-)- The government has enacted an immutable law.