Inevitabilism
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The belief that certain developments are impossible to avoid; determinism. uncountable
"Gramsci identified such inevitabilism and mechanical determinism as a form of consolation during a time of defeat: ‘I have been defeated for the moment but the tide of history is working for me in the long term’."
Example
More examples"Gramsci identified such inevitabilism and mechanical determinism as a form of consolation during a time of defeat: ‘I have been defeated for the moment but the tide of history is working for me in the long term’."
Etymology
From inevitable + -ism.
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