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

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