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Sacrosanct vs Immutable - What's the difference?

sacrosanct | immutable |

As adjectives the difference between sacrosanct and immutable

is that sacrosanct is beyond alteration, criticism, or interference, especially due to religious sanction; inviolable while immutable is unable to be changed without exception.

As a noun immutable is

something that cannot be changed.

sacrosanct

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • beyond alteration, criticism, or interference, especially due to religious sanction; inviolable.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=August 14 , author=Kenneth R. Harney , title=Homeowner mortgage write-off may be in jeopardy , work=Los Angeles Times citation , page= , passage=After decades of being considered politically sacrosanct , why are homeowner mortgage write-offs suddenly on the chopping block?}}
  • sacred.
    • ("sacrosanct on Wikiquote")

    References

    * * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd edition, 1989

    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

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