INELUCTABILITY Synonyms: 15 Similar and Opposite Words

ineluctability

noun

Definition of ineluctability

as in likelihood

the quality or state of being impossible to avoid or evade the continuing debate over the ineluctability of global warming

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Noun

Others are just as deliberate about avoiding the front lines, gravitating toward technical or support specialties where the likelihood of direct combat is lower, but translating those skills to a civilian job may be smoother.

— Steven Beynon, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
As the likelihood of stuck parts increased, the probabilistic planner produced faster disassembly times in scenarios where the robot had another way to reach the target component.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of likelihood

Noun

Recent advancements have extended runway, and Epoch's own analysis treats continued scaling through 2030 as plausible but not an inevitability.

— TerDawn DeBoe, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Given the near inevitability of natural, accidental, and weaponized biological incidents in the future, anxiety about growing risks is warranted, and it is magnified by the absence of a strategy to effectively manage those risks.

— Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of inevitability

Noun

While talks are still fluid in Mangione’s federal case, in other cases where firm agreements were in place there is no certainty that a judge will sign off on the terms.

— Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
But each step up the sanctions ladder brings greater diplomatic costs — and diminishing certainty that additional economic damage will translate into political concessions.

— Magdalena Del Valle, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of certainty

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