Irreversible vs Irrepealable - What's the difference?
irreversible | irrepealable | Synonyms |
Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward.
Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-04-21, volume=411, issue=8884, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (label) Incapable of being reversed to the original state without consumption of free energy and increase of entropy.
That cannot be repealed.
* {{quote-book, year=1836, author=American Anti-Slavery Society, title=The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Is the impious edict irrepealable ? }}
* {{quote-book, year=1911, author=Frederic Jesup Stimson, title=Popular Law-making, chapter=, edition=
, passage=It was anticipated in the writer's work on constitutional law ("Federal and State Constitutions," p. 186, note 8): "The enabling acts admitting the eight new Western States usually provided against polygamy on account of the Mormon influence, and this, with other provisions concerning schools, etc., was made forever irrepealable without the consent of the United States; see Utah 3, 1. }}
Irreversible is a synonym of irrepealable.
As adjectives the difference between irreversible and irrepealable
is that irreversible is irreversible while irrepealable is that cannot be repealed.irreversible
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