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

So when the Knicks started making basket after basket, stop after stop, during Wednesday night’s fourth quarter against the Cavs, an air of inevitability hung over Madison Square Garden. — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 11 Nov. 2026

The election stripped away the sheen of inevitability that once insulated both the billionaire and his pet project. — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 7 Nov. 2026

The script’s air of inevitability prevents it from mustering up much suspense. — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026

But, in the past thirty-some years, the overwhelming dominance of Republicans—and, in the past decade, of the far-right Christian-nationalist wing of the Party—has bolstered these claims of inevitability. — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2026

Eventually the inevitability of gravity brings them close enough to suddenly merge, sending out a tremendous blast of matter and energy that can outshine the sun by a factor of many billions, though just for the briefest fraction of a second. — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2026

This maximalist approach gives Dead Deities an air of inevitability and momentum. — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 30 Oct. 2026

Following the Black Death in medieval Europe, memento mori, symbolic reminders of death’s inevitability, further ubiquitized skulls in art and architecture. — Livia Caligor, Architectural Digest, 30 Oct. 2026

Nab, however, is holding onto his guns, arguing data centers are an inevitability. — Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 29 Oct. 2026