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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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