irreversibility

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From irreversible + -ity or ir- + reversibility.

A continual change of aspect, the irreversibility of the order of phenomena, the perfect individuality of a perfectly self-contained series: such, then, are the outward characteristics--whether real or apparent is of little moment--which distinguish the living from the merely mechanical. — Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, Henri Bergson
To get a notion of this irreducibility and irreversibility, we must break with scientific habits which are adapted to the fundamental requirements of thought, we must do violence to the mind, go counter to the natural bent of the intellect. — Creative Evolution, Bergson, Henri

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