inviolability means the quality or state of being inviolable; inviolableness. It carries an Arena rating of 1361, earned across 32 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, inviolability ranks #2,954 of 17,128 for Most Ponderous Words, #3,250 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words, #4,971 of 17,130 for Most Beautiful Words, #7,612 of 17,127 for Words That Escaped Their Books.
Why “inviolability” is a great word
INVIOLABILITY — [Noun] The quality or state of being secure from violation, infringement, or desecration. From Middle French inviolabilité, from Latin inviolabilitas, from inviolabilis ("inviolable"), from in- ("not") + violabilis ("able to be violated"). First attested in English in the 1660s. Unlike "immunity," which implies a legal or biological exemption, or "invulnerability," which denotes physical imperviousness, inviolability is the sacrosanct aura drawn around the intangible. It is the unbroken seal on a diplomatic pouch, the undisturbed silence of a sanctuary, and the pristine boundary of a sworn oath—a principle that concedes its own fragility by the fierce necessity of its claim.
Etymology
From Middle French inviolabilité, from Latin inviolabilitas.
noun
- The quality or state of being inviolable; inviolableness.e.g.“Presidential acts of forgiveness in America seldom rattle confidence in the integrity of the judicial system or the inviolability of the rule of law.” — 2025 January 22, Editorial Board, “Of mercy and grievance”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
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