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inevitability

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of inevitability

the quality or state of being impossible to avoid or evade

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

certainty, ineluctability, inevitableness
Words Related to inevitability

likelihood, probability

inexorability, inexorableness, relentlessness
Near Antonyms of inevitability

preventability

improbability, unlikelihood, unlikeliness

doubtfulness, dubiousness
Antonyms of inevitability

uncertainty

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