ineluctability
Cannot be escaped
Ineluctability is the quality of being impossible to escape or avoid.
The word carries a sense of fate or inevitability that cannot be resisted or evaded: the ineluctability of death, the ineluctability of change.
It appears most often in philosophical or literary contexts, lending weight to discussions of destiny or necessity.
State of being certain
- unavoidabilityState of being certain
- necessityIndispensable requirement
- obligationRequired task or commitment
- compulsionIrresistible urge to act
binding · imperative · irreversibility · inexorability · no escape · no alternative
Voluntary relinquishment of position
- stoicismUncomplaining acceptance of difficulty
- acquiescenceUnresisting acceptance
- surrenderCease resistance, yield
- fatalismDoctrine of inevitable outcomes
submission · yielding · forbearance · equanimity · capitulation · reconciliation · coming to terms · letting go
Cause-effect connection
- cause and effectHow events produce results
- predeterminationDecision made in advance
- mechanismMeans by which something operates
- materialismPrioritizing goods over spirit
laws of nature · natural order · deterministic · scientific · causal chain · hard determinism · physical laws
Predetermined course of events
- karmaSpiritual cause and effect
- providenceDivine protective care
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
prophecy · oracle · omen · divination · astrology · fates · wheel of fortune · horoscope
Absence of uncertainty
- certitudeFirm belief, unshakable
- definitenessQuality of being exact
- conclusivenessQuality of being final
- irrefutabilityImpossible to argue against
assurance · guarantee · incontrovertibility · absoluteness · finality · foregone conclusion
inescapability
State of being certain
- unavoidabilityState of being certain
- necessityIndispensable requirement
- obligationRequired task or commitment
compulsion · binding · imperative · irreversibility · inexorability · no escape · no alternative
resignation
Voluntary relinquishment of position
- stoicismUncomplaining acceptance of difficulty
- acquiescenceUnresisting acceptance
- surrenderCease resistance, yield
fatalism · submission · yielding · forbearance · equanimity · capitulation · reconciliation · coming to terms · letting go · making peace
causality
Cause-effect connection
- cause and effectHow events produce results
- predeterminationDecision made in advance
- mechanismMeans by which something operates
materialism · laws of nature · natural order · deterministic · scientific · causal chain · hard determinism · physical laws
destiny
Predetermined course of events
- karmaSpiritual cause and effect
- providenceDivine protective care
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
predestination · prophecy · oracle · omen · divination · astrology · fates · wheel of fortune · horoscope · augury
sureness
Absence of uncertainty
- certitudeFirm belief, unshakable
- definitenessQuality of being exact
- conclusivenessQuality of being final
irrefutability · assurance · guarantee · incontrovertibility · absoluteness · finality · foregone conclusion
ineluctabilityuncertainty
State of being unsure
doubtfulness · dubiousness · improbability · unlikelihood · unlikeliness
ineluctabilityavoidability
Capacity for prevention
preventability · escapability · changeability · flexibility · alterability
ineluctabilitycontingency
Uncertain possible event
optionality · conditionality · possibility · free will · volition
inevitable, inevitably, ineluctable, inevitability, ineluctably, evitable