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Indelible vs Immutable - What's the difference?

indelible | immutable |

As adjectives the difference between indelible and immutable

is that indelible is having the quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface while immutable is unable to be changed without exception.

As a noun immutable is

something that cannot be changed.

indelible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • having the quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface
    • This ink spot on the contract is indelible .
    This stain on my shirt is indelible .
  • incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten
    • That horrible story just might make an indelible impression on the memory.
  • * 2014 , (Ruzwana Bashir), " The untold story of how a culture of shame perpetuates abuse. I know, I was a victim", The Guardian , 29 August 2014:
    • During our investigation it became clear that for three decades many other women had suffered at the hands of our abuser, but they had refused to testify against him because of the indelible stigma it would bring.
  • incapable of being annulled
  • * Sprat
    • They are endued with indelible power from above.

    Related terms

    * indelibility * indelibly

    Synonyms

    * unerasable

    Antonyms

    * delible * (difficult to delete) uninsertable

    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.

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