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

To cope with this reality, philosophical and religious traditions such as Buddhism and Stoicism have long focused on transience, unpredictability, and the inevitability of change and loss. — Maia Szalavitz, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

The story gains a sense of momentum and inevitability as these disconnected tales suddenly become part of a continuous thread. — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 15 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

Years later, the group reflected on their chart dominance and the inevitability that another artist would eventually surpass them. — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2026

Jay has always skillfully folded each turn into his larger mythology, going from drug dealer to rapper to label boss to executive with an air of inevitability, every choice subsumed into the glory of the hustle. — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026

As feminists fought patriarchy’s attempt to render women vulnerable socially and leave us dependent on men for money and more, the all-too-human inevitability of vulnerability and dependence got lost in the muck. — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 18 Sep. 2026