Inevitability

//ɪˌnɛvɪtəˈbɪlɪti// noun

noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The condition of being inevitable. uncountable

    "Now, cramped and outclassed as Euston has become, rebuilding hangs over it with an awful inevitability."

  2. 2
    the quality of being unavoidable wordnet
  3. 3
    An inevitable condition or outcome. countable

Synonyms

All synonyms
certaintynecessityabsolute certaintyabsolutenessact of godappointed lot

Example

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"Sitting in a prison cell, a young Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote that, "Human progress never rolls on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co-workers with God.""

Etymology

From inevitable + -ity.

Related phrases

point of inevitability

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