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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. Eric Hoffer:

    However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable.

  2. Jeff Bock:

    We have to prepare for the inevitability that one, or more, of the major chains may not survive if this situation continues to lurch into next summer, the number of movie theaters that will close on a permanent basis will be directly proportional to how long it takes the US to stomp out the virus.

  3. Steven Hawkins:

    I agree that it's an uphill slog to see federal legalization, but what we're putting on the table is inevitability, when you get to the point when half of the country has legalized for adult-use, we have now set a stage for inevitability. And that begins to change the tone and tenor in Washington.

  4. Clara Oleson:

    There is no lock, there is no inevitability. Not here.

  5. Brendan Buck:

    They're going to stick with the process arguments for as long as possible because most members still can't stomach a defense of the substance, there is a real sense of inevitability to the impeachment in the White House, and so the focus is on shoring up the base to minimize any House Republican losses in the Senate.

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