INEVITABLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inevitableness mean? 

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

1. the quality of being unavoidable

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INEVITABLENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being unavoidable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

inevitability; inevitableness

Hypernyms ("inevitableness" 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 

Of course, my philosophy had always recognized the inevitableness of the love-call sooner or later; but long years of bookish silence had made me inattentive and unprepared.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)