Antonyms for inevitability
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : in-ev-i-tuh-buh l |
Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈɛv ɪ tə bəl |
Definition of inevitability
Origin :- 1640s, from inevitable + -ity.
- As in necessity : noun need, essentiality
- As in predestination : noun destiny
- As in handwriting on the wall : noun impending misfortune
- As in certainty : noun positive assurance
- As in certitude : noun sureness
- As in lethality : noun fatality
- As in destiny : noun fate
- As in fatality : noun death, loss; ability to cause such
- Inevitability without content is man's reason in its three forms.
- Extract from : « War and Peace » by Leo Tolstoy
- Election Day came with the inevitability of death and taxes.
- Extract from : « Hail to the Chief » by Gordon Randall Garrett
- The one desire of his life, to do the will of God—The inevitability of the end.
- Extract from : « The Last Days of Tolstoy » by V. G. Chertkov
- She was filled only with a great expectancy, a waiting for the inevitability of life.
- Extract from : « The Law Inevitable » by Louis Couperus
- His soul, in its isolation as she lay on his breast, chose it so, with the soul's inevitability.
- Extract from : « Aaron's Rod » by D. H. Lawrence
- The promise of satiation, of inevitability, steeped his being in a pleasant lethargy.
- Extract from : « Cytherea » by Joseph Hergesheimer
- We are counting on the inevitability of the international revolution.
- Extract from : « A Letter to American Workingmen » by N. Lenin
- But it went on deliberately to the end with an inevitability which revealed the man.
- Extract from : « The Triumph of John Kars » by Ridgwell Cullum
- He had his moment of rebellion then at the inevitability of death and doom.
- Extract from : « Kenny » by Leona Dalrymple
- Yet even he was slow to appreciate the inevitability of secession.
- Extract from : « Great Britain and the American Civil War » by Ephraim Douglass Adams
Synonyms for inevitability
- accident
- afterlife
- all sewn up
- assurance
- assuredness
- authoritativeness
- belief
- break
- breaks
- call
- casualty
- cause
- certainty
- certitude
- cinch
- circumstance
- claim
- compulsion
- conclusion
- condition
- confidence
- constellation
- conviction
- course of events
- credence
- cup
- deadliness
- definiteness
- demand
- desideratum
- design
- destructiveness
- disaster
- divine decree
- dogmatism
- doom
- duress
- dying
- essence
- essential
- exaction
- exigency
- expectation
- faith
- fate
- finality
- firmness
- foreordination
- forewarning
- fortune
- fundamental
- future
- God's will
- godsend
- happenstance
- hereafter
- horoscope
- imperative
- indispensability
- indubitableness
- inevitability
- inevitableness
- inexorableness
- intent
- intention
- karma
- kismet
- lethality
- lethalness
- life or death
- lock
- lockup
- lot
- luck
- Moirai
- mortality
- must
- necessary
- necrosis
- needfulness
- no alternative
- no choice
- noxiousness
- objective
- obligation
- open and shut case
- ordinance
- pinch
- poisonousness
- portents and evils imminent
- portion
- positiveness
- positivism
- precondition
- predestination
- predetermination
- prerequisite
- privation
- prospect
- rain or shine
- requirement
- requisite
- serendipity
- setup
- shoo-in
- sine qua non
- staunchness
- steadiness
- stock
- store
- stress
- sure bet
- sure thing
- surefire
- sureness
- surety
- the stars
- trust
- undeniability
- urgency
- validity
- virulence
- vital part
- vitals
- want
- warning
- way the ball bounces
- way the cookie crumbles
- what is written
- wheel of fortune
- world to come
- wrap-up
- writing on the wall
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