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inevitability

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English

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Etymology

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Frominevitable +‎-ity.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɪˌnɛvɪtəˈbɪlɪti/

Noun

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inevitability (countable anduncountable,pluralinevitabilities)

  1. (uncountable) The condition of beinginevitable.
    • 1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, inRailway Magazine, page358:
      Now, cramped and outclassed as Euston has become, rebuilding hangs over it with an awfulinevitability.
    • 2019 January 20, John Naughton, quotingShoshana Zuboff, “‘The goal is to automate us’: welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism”, inThe Guardian[1]:
      Surveillance capitalism is a human creation. It lives in history, not in technologicalinevitability.
    • 2020 October 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0-1 Denmark: 'Harry Maguire looked devoid of confidence in Nations League loss'”, inBBC Sport[2]:
      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 ofinevitability from the moment he recklessly launched himself at Yussuf Poulsen to pick up an early yellow.
  2. (countable) An inevitable condition or outcome.

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the condition of being inevitable
an inevitable condition or outcome
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