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 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

On the one hand, there’s a fascination with collective joy and the forms of vernacular invention that aspire to it; on the other, there’s an underlying melancholy that points to the inevitability of isolation, an epistemology of loneliness. — Pablo Larios, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026

There are quite a few high-profile match ups on the docket for week one, and with that comes the inevitability of upsets. — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2026

The alternative is to allow each side’s strategy to reinforce the other’s worst assumptions until escalation begins to look less like a choice than an inevitability. — Hamidreza Azizi, Time, 29 Aug. 2026

A lot of things scare me about the inevitability of that transition. — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 25 Aug. 2026

The Sky spent the last week teetering on the edge, racking up a few last-gasp wins to hold off the looming inevitability of their own elimination. — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026

Donalds’ spoken acceptance of the inevitability of massive data centers, and their support for his candidacy, is one of his biggest political liabilities. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 25 Aug. 2026