INEVITABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inevitability mean? 

• INEVITABILITY (noun)
  The noun INEVITABILITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being unavoidable

  Familiarity information: INEVITABILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INEVITABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being unavoidable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

inevitability; inevitableness

Hypernyms ("inevitability" is a kind of...):

certainty; foregone conclusion; sure thing (something that is certain)

Derivation:

inevitable (incapable of being avoided or prevented)

inevitable (invariably occurring or appearing)

 Context examples 

It always happens so in this vale of tears, there is an inevitability about such things which we can only wonder at, deplore, and bear as we best can.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

That inevitability, along with the lack of time for organisms to adapt, is most concerning.

(Marine organisms in Southern Ocean will face shallower zone for life, National Science Foundation)