unmalleabilityn.
/(ˌ)ʌnmalɪəˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /ˌənˌmæl(j)əˈbɪlᵻdi/, /ˌənˌmæliəˈbɪlᵻdi/ The quality or condition of being unmalleable.
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the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > stability, fixity > [noun]
stablenessa1300
tack1412
steadfastnessc1450
surenessc1450
stability1470
radicationa1500
constance1509
steadiness1530
certitudea1533
firmance1533
staidness1556
establishment1561
settledness1571
settling1582
state1597
groundedness1601
inviscerationa1631
setness1642
unmalleableness1644
fixedness1647
poise1649
inveteracy1716
well-foundedness1735
fixity1791
unmalleability1828
deep-rootedness1860
instatement1877
steady state1885
hard and fastness1897
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Unmalleability, the quality or state of being unmalleable.
1835 J. Knowles Pronouncing & Explanatory Dict. Eng. Lang. Unmalleability, incapable of being beaten or hammered out.
1847 J. W. Rogers Appeal for Peasantry of Ireland (ed. 2) 64 If it be found that our plate-iron used in ship-building, proves its unmalleability and brittleness, in the case of concussion from a shot, what becomes of the boasted value of iron vessels?
1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. ii. 62 The great unmalleability of all bodies of law.
1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. i. 13 The density and unmalleability of the world.
1914 Windsor Mag. Apr. 604/1 There was something in the utter quiet unmalleability of the man which impressed him.
1995 Univ. Chicago Law Rev. 62 181 Learning to produce music..teaches children to respect the fundamental unmalleability of some things (a note is either flat or not, [etc.]).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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