Synonyms of inevitability

inevitability

noun

as in likelihood

the quality or state of being impossible to avoid or evade

a hockey team that has refused to accept the inevitability of defeat

Synonyms & Similar Words

• likelihood
• inevitableness
• certainty
• probability
• ineluctability
• inexorability
• relentlessness
• inexorableness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• uncertainty
• improbability
• unlikelihood
• preventability
• doubtfulness
• unlikeliness
• dubiousness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of inevitability

The play is largely a study in kindness, in both form and subject — even while facing the tough inevitabilities of any life. — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2026

The churn of new produce doesn’t feel like a miracle so much as an inevitability. — Tanya Bush, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 Oct. 2026

Elections are driven by political contingency, not historical inevitability. — Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2026

Years later, the group reflected on their chart dominance and the inevitability that another artist would eventually surpass them. — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2026

Jay has always skillfully folded each turn into his larger mythology, going from drug dealer to rapper to label boss to executive with an air of inevitability, every choice subsumed into the glory of the hustle. — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026

As feminists fought patriarchy’s attempt to render women vulnerable socially and leave us dependent on men for money and more, the all-too-human inevitability of vulnerability and dependence got lost in the muck. — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 18 Sep. 2026

The Arsenal manager was talking about the way his team responded to going a goal behind inside two minutes on Sunday, and the wave after wave of attacks that produced a sense of inevitability that the champions would turn this game around. — Stuart James, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026

If anything, recent years have built to this moment with a sense of inevitability. — Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2026