Definition of inevitability in English:
inevitability
noun ɪnɛvɪtəˈbɪlɪtiɪˌnɛvədəˈbɪlədi
mass nounThe quality of being certain to happen.
there was an air of inevitability about the outcome
the inevitability of death
count noun one of the inevitabilities of life
Example sentencesExamples
- The kinetic imagery of the first scene frames her career, perpetually reminding the viewer of the inevitability of her decline.
- For painting, always a discursive medium, to address the visual language of the computer is a cultural inevitability.
- Lack of funds has led to the inevitability of frequent alterations in the script.
- Audiences must have bought into the fatalistic inevitability of the plot devices.
- Events pile up to their wrenching conclusion with a slow, terrible inevitability.
- Ice ages, like slowly drifting polar ice caps, have a ponderous inevitability about them.
- A fallen leaf drifts briefly into his life, and tells him of the inevitability and capricious nature of death.
- I keep going back to them, despite the inevitability of their politics.
- Made after the artist's recovery from two heart attacks, the sculpture is a physical representation of the inevitability of defeat.
- She must prepare herself to meet the inevitability of change.
Definition of inevitability in US English:
inevitability
nouniˌnevədəˈbilədēɪˌnɛvədəˈbɪlədi
The quality of being certain to happen.
there was an air of inevitability about the outcome
the inevitability of death
one of the inevitabilities of life
Example sentencesExamples
- For painting, always a discursive medium, to address the visual language of the computer is a cultural inevitability.
- A fallen leaf drifts briefly into his life, and tells him of the inevitability and capricious nature of death.
- Made after the artist's recovery from two heart attacks, the sculpture is a physical representation of the inevitability of defeat.
- Ice ages, like slowly drifting polar ice caps, have a ponderous inevitability about them.
- Audiences must have bought into the fatalistic inevitability of the plot devices.
- Lack of funds has led to the inevitability of frequent alterations in the script.
- I keep going back to them, despite the inevitability of their politics.
- Events pile up to their wrenching conclusion with a slow, terrible inevitability.
- She must prepare herself to meet the inevitability of change.
- The kinetic imagery of the first scene frames her career, perpetually reminding the viewer of the inevitability of her decline.