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Incorrigible vs Incorrigibleness - What's the difference?

incorrigible | incorrigibleness |

As nouns the difference between incorrigible and incorrigibleness

is that incorrigible is an incorrigibly bad individual while incorrigibleness is the quality of being incorrigible; incorrigibility.

As an adjective incorrigible

is defective and impossible to materially correct or set aright.

incorrigible

English

Adjective

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  • defective and impossible to materially correct or set aright.
    • ''The construction flaw is incorrigible ; any attempt to amend it would cause a complete collapse.
  • incurably depraved; not reformable.
    • ''His dark soul was too incorrigible to repent, even at his execution.
  • impervious to correction by punishment or pain.
    • ''The imp is incorrigible : his bottom is still red from his last spanking when he plans the next prank.
  • unmanageable.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2006 , date=December 7 , author=Michael White , title=Breaking up is hard to do, even at the Treasury , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Gordon Brown may have his grumpy, Granita moments, but as a strategist he is an incorrigible optimist.}}
  • determined, unalterable, hence impossible to improve upon.
    • ''The laws of nature and mathematics are incorrigible .
  • (archaic) incurable.

    • Quotations

    Synonyms

    (checksyns) * irredeemable * irreparable * uncorrectable

    Antonyms

    * corrigible

    Derived terms

    * incorrigibility * incorrigibly

    Related terms

    * incorrect

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An incorrigibly bad individual
    • ''The incorrigibles in the prison population are either lifers or habitual reoffenders

    incorrigibleness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being incorrigible; incorrigibility.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1610, author=, title=The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old and New Testaments, Complete, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Amos Chapter 4 The Israelites are reproved for their oppressing the poor, for their idolatry, and their incorrigibleness . 4:1. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1854, author=Theodor Mommsen, title=The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5), chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=(1) They had become sufficiently convinced of the incorrigibleness of the party in power: the fact that the governing lords had even in the last war neither forgotten their spite nor learned greater wisdom, was shown by the effrontery bordering on simplicity with which they now instituted proceedings against Hamilcar as the originator of the mercenary war, because he had without full powers from the government made promises of money to his Sicilian soldiers. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1913, author=J. C. McFeeters, title=Sketches of the Covenanters, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=On the one side she was attached to her king, notwithstanding his incorrigibleness ; on the other, she was devoted to the principles involved, including the independence of the Church. }}