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Meanings of inevitability in English

Catalan
inevitabilitat

The quality of being unavoidable.

inevitabilitat
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Examples for "inevitableness"
Examples for "inevitableness"
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Marx, like Lassalle, believed in the inevitableness of the fall of capitalism.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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The inevitableness of atheism has been well summed up by Chapman Cohen:
The Necessity of Atheism
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Across Europe it moved, striking fear by the inevitableness of its coming.
Mediaeval Socialism
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From then on the thing had moved forward with a certain inevitableness.
Fanny Herself
5
The very inevitableness of it seems to kill thought, rather than induce it.
Friendship
Usage of inevitability in English
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But it will happen along the way; it's an inevitability in war.
Unravel Me
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TURKEY: People in south-east Turkey fear the apparent inevitability of another war.
The Irish Times
3
His heart lurched with a sense of inevitability he couldn't quite grasp.
The man who ate the 747
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Two minutes before the interval there was already a sense of inevitability.
The Guardian
5
He said there was an inevitability about today's announcement from Rio Tinto.
Radio NZ
6
Earth scientists unanimously agree on the inevitability of major earthquakes in California.
An Assessment of the Consequences and Preparations for a Catastr...
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Tom saw the inevitability of it: a final betrayal, like Rosa Forte's.
Shadowland
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All they have left is rhetoric about the inevitability of Irish unity.
The Irish Times
9
Peter absorbed this news with a strange detachment, a feeling of inevitability.
The passage
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The feeling of inevitability weighed heavily even upon the most pacifically minded.
Jean-Christophe Journey's End
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Perhaps she thought there was a sort of inevitability in this programme.
The Dark House
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We did predict the inevitability of war with the Ousters, M. Executive.
The Hyperion Cantos
13
There was an inevitability as soon as he pounced on Nainggolan's error.
The Guardian
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On a pragmatic level it seemed to have an air of inevitability.
The Guardian
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The inevitability of the troika was accepted here, and its arrival announced.
The Irish Times
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Now, a car wash. She shrugged, surrendering to the inevitability of progress.
Dying for Dinner (A Cooking Class Mystery)
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Inevitability through the time
Inevitability across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Less common
United States of America
Less common