inevitability
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From inevitable + -ity.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɪˌnɛvɪtəˈbɪlɪti/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]inevitability (countable and uncountable, plural inevitabilities)
- (uncountable) The condition of being inevitable.
- 1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 358:
- Now, cramped and outclassed as Euston has become, rebuilding hangs over it with an awful inevitability.
- 2014 November 2, Daniel Taylor, “Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Smalling’s quick one-two of yellow cards towards the end of the first half had left an air of inevitability about what would follow and, if anything, it was probably a surprise that City restricted themselves to Sergio Agüero’s goal bearing in mind another of United’s defenders, Marcos Rojo, was taken off on a stretcher early in the second half with a dislocated shoulder.
- 2019 January 20, John Naughton, quoting Shoshana Zuboff, “‘The goal is to automate us’: welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism”, in The Guardian[2]:
- Surveillance capitalism is a human creation. It lives in history, not in technological inevitability.
- 2020 October 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0-1 Denmark: 'Harry Maguire looked devoid of confidence in Nations League loss'”, in BBC Sport[3]:
- Manchester United's 27-year-old captain cut a distracted and chaotic figure as he endured a personal nightmare, its conclusion with a red card carrying an air of inevitability from the moment he recklessly launched himself at Yussuf Poulsen to pick up an early yellow.
- (countable) An inevitable condition or outcome.
Synonyms
[edit]- (condition of being inevitable): certainty, inescapableness, necessity
- (something inevitable): See Thesaurus:sure thing
Antonyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]the condition of being inevitable
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an inevitable condition or outcome
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