Inevitability

Quick meaning: Inevitability is a noun meaning (uncountable) The condition of being inevitable.

Meaning

(uncountable) The condition of being inevitable.

More Meanings

1. (countable) An inevitable condition or outcome.

Example Sentences

Surveillance capitalism is a human creation. It lives in history, not in technological inevitability.

Now, cramped and outclassed as Euston has become, rebuilding hangs over it with an awful inevitability.

Manchester United's 27-year-old captain cut a distracted and chaotic figure as he endured a personal nightmare, its conclusion with a red card carrying an air of inevitability from the moment he recklessly launched himself at Yussuf Poulsen to pick up an early yellow.

Smalling’s quick one-two of yellow cards towards the end of the first half had left an air of inevitability about what would follow and, if anything, it was probably a surprise that City restricted themselves to Sergio Agüero’s goal bearing in mind another of United’s defenders, Marcos Rojo, was taken off on a stretcher early in the second half with a dislocated shoulder.

Word Forms

• inevitabilities

Synonyms for inevitability

Depending on context, synonyms include certainty, inescapableness, necessity, inevitableness.

Antonyms for inevitability

Common opposites include evitability, impossibility, contingency.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unavoidable, misfortune, doom, necessity, finality, fatality.

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