incurability

1. 1.

   incapability of being cured or healed

   Synonymsincurableness

   Antonymscurability

   Broadercharacteristic
2. 2.

   incapability of being altered in disposition or habits

   “the incurability of his optimism”

   Broaderunalterability

Other forms of incurability

plural

incurabilities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about incurability

What does incurability mean?

incurability means "incapability of being cured or healed". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in incurability?

incurability has 6 syllables: in-cu-ra-bi-li-ty. The stress falls on "bi".

What is another word for incurability?

Close synonyms include incurableness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of incurability?

The recorded antonyms are curability.

Is incurability a common word?

incurability is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.