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n. - Incapability of being altered in disposition or habits; Incapability of being cured or healed.

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Usage examples (15)
  • The incurability of his optimism
  • Adjective : an incurable disease. ,his incurable pessimism
  • Yet always he found himself harking back to what he sometimes called the "incurability" of life.
  • People would gradually give up hope, but there'd be no focal point for despair, no identifiable moment where the incurability of the problem became common knowledge.
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