INVIOLABLENESS Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

inviolableness

noun

as in invincibleness

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Noun

Sustainable peace must be anchored in the UN Charter, the Budapest Memorandum, and the inviolability of sovereign borders.

— Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
Presidential acts of forgiveness in America seldom rattle confidence in the integrity of the judicial system or the inviolability of the rule of law.

— The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Jan. 2025

Definition of inviolability

Noun

Foremost among them was the American sense of invulnerability, which had survived lesser terrorist acts.

— Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026
Once again, the nation’s defenses were down, beguiled by a presumption of invulnerability.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of invulnerability

Noun

Participants, mostly males 14 to 20 years old, are drawn to the thrills of the jump amplified by social media and anchored by a feeling of invincibility.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
To have any hope of competing against the Premier League champions, Chelsea’s vaunted front three had to demonstrate that a Gunners defence which has carried its aura of invincibility into the opening weeks of this new season could be made to bleed.

— Jack Lang, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of invincibility

Noun

The attacks and the air raid alerts that accompany them have severely disrupted life in the city, forcing millions to constantly seek shelter and paralyzing the capital’s businesses and transport networks.

— Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 5 Oct. 2026
If able to scale, this technique could be used to build shelters and other structures for future long-term human missions to the planet.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of shelter

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For decades, film festivals cast themselves as cinema’s refuge from Hollywood’s worst commercial instincts.

— Joseph Kahn, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026
In real life, his swanky Swiss refuge is actually located in Gressoney-Saint-Jean, an alpine village in Italy’s Aosta Valley.

— Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of refuge

Noun

In recent years, Cambodian opposition leaders say they have been surveilled and jailed in Thailand, once a refuge for asylum seekers.

— Shibani Mahtani, NPR, 2 Oct. 2026
Reker spent years in her role thereafter enduring death threats for her support of asylum seekers.

— Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2026

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