irreversibility

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The quality of being irreversible; the lack of an ability to be reversed

Paul Horwich, for example, in Asymmetries in Time, includes the laws of thermodynamics in a list of ten temporally asymmetric phenomena which operate in our conceptual system. Seen in this way, where the irreversibility of time is inseparable from rationality itself, the argument against backwards time tends to be expressed in terms of consequences, or the fear that time reversal is paramount to irrationality.

The state or quality of being irreversible; irreversibleness
the quality of being irreversible (once done it cannot be changed)
{i} quality of being irreversible, quality of being unchangeable
irreversibility
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