INEVITABILITY Synonyms: 15 Similar and Opposite Words

inevitability

noun

Definition of inevitability

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

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Recent Examples of inevitability MediaNews Group via Getty Images Automakers have been touting electric vehicles (EVs) as the future of transportation for the past decade, treating the technology as an inevitability, not a bet. — Michael Harley, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026 Argentina’s supporters, meanwhile, lorded their success over others as their team kept winning with a crushing inevitability. — Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 16 July 2026 For weeks, there have been murmurs in DC about a coming White House move to address the inevitability of powerful, open-source Chinese AI models being used by people and businesses across the globe. — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 15 July 2026 Even Flynn, a high school history teacher whose curriculum recounts the cyclical nature of wars and revolutions, needed to believe in that possibility of a reprieve, despite reiterating death’s inevitability in the classroom. — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 15 July 2026 Norvell enters this season fighting perception that his dismissal is an inevitability. — Gabriel Burns, AJC.com, 15 July 2026 History is full of companies that mistake longevity for inevitability. — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 6 July 2026 The history of Kaskaskia is full of stories of resilience and stubborn pride, but also of the inevitability of nature. — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026 But Norway held out and then, with a sense of inevitability, Haaland intervened at the end. — Stuart James, New York Times, 30 June 2026

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Noun

And the likelihood that an autistic person also has an intellectual disability has declined meaningfully since the 1980s, from about 70 percent to about 30 percent.

— Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026
In fact, given the likelihood that the keynote day is on Wednesday rather than Tuesday, the review date seems likely to slip to the second of those days.

— David Phelan, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

Definition of likelihood

Noun

In the span of three weeks, the Red Sox went from an almost certainty to trade Aroldis Chapman, Sonny Gray and maybe Willson Contreras to now looking like clear buyers.

— Zack Meisel, New York Times, 24 July 2026
Errant thoughts will still arise (the laundry, the email, the certainty that your opening scene is a disaster) but in a mindful state, those thoughts are observable.

— April Dávila, Literary Hub, 22 July 2026

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