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Princeton's WordNet

  1. inevitability, inevitablenessnoun

    the quality of being unavoidable

Wiktionary

  1. inevitabilitynoun

    The condition of being inevitable

  2. inevitabilitynoun

    An inevitable condition or outcome

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Inevitabilitynoun

    Impossibility to be avoided; certainty.

    Etymology: from inevitable.

    By liberty, I do understand neither a liberty from sin, misery, servitude, nor violence, but from necessity, or rather necessitation; that is, an universal immunity from all inevitability and determination to one. John Bramhall, against Hobbs.

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  1. inevitability

    Inevitability refers to a state or condition where something is bound to occur or happen, and it cannot be prevented or avoided. It relates to events or outcomes that are certain or unavoidable.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Inevitabilitynoun

    impossibility to be avoided or shunned; inevitableness

  2. Etymology: [Cf. F. invitabilit.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of inevitability in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of inevitability in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of inevitability in a Sentence

  1. Marshall McLuhan:

    There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

  2. Dmitry Peskov:

    Of course, not all that needed to be done was done for informing and explaining the inevitability and importance of vaccination, but at the same time, citizens of our country need to take a more responsible position and get vaccinated.

  3. Dan Schnur:

    You don't develop a sense of inevitability through small donor donations.

  4. Justin Leonard:

    We need to solve that inevitability by effective township design.

  5. Daniel Benjamin:

    My own instinctive reaction, without having a huge number of facts in front of me, is that if you are striking terrorists using military force for many years in a row, then something like this unfortunately becomes almost a statistical inevitability, it is very hard to avoid.

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