inevitability
What must happen
Inevitability is the quality of being certain to happen, impossible to prevent or avoid.
It suggests fate or necessity rather than choice: He accepted the inevitability of death.
The word often appears when acknowledging outcomes that resistance cannot change: Given the evidence, the inevitability of conviction became clear.
Predetermined course of events
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- providenceDivine protective care
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
karma · foreordained · oracle · prophecy · omen · fatalism · lot · fortune
Voluntary relinquishment of position
- surrenderCease resistance, yield
- acquiescenceUnresisting acceptance
- stoicismUncomplaining acceptance of difficulty
- fatalismDoctrine of inevitable outcomes
yielding · submission · coming to terms · letting go · acknowledgment · capitulation · making peace · reconciliation
Segment of text
- entropyQuantified chaos in systems
- changeTo make different
- progressionSequential forward movement
- agingGrowing older over time
seasons · cycles · erosion · decay · march of time · temporal · transience · flux
Cessation of life
- dyingCeasing to live
- agingGrowing older over time
- decayGradual organic breakdown
- entropyQuantified chaos in systems
impermanence · transience · finitude · funeral · mourning · grief · terminal · demise
Impossible to avoid
- unpreventableImpossible to stop ahead
- certainFree from doubt
- sureFree from uncertainty
- inexorableImpossible to prevent
predetermined · irrevocable · foregone · guaranteed · incontrovertible · undeniable · unalterable · unstoppable
Final result of events
- consequenceResult of an action
- culminationHighest or final point
- resultWhat follows a cause
- endgameConcluding phase of competition
denouement · finale · aftermath · climax · completion · termination · finality · resolution
destiny
Predetermined course of events
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- providenceDivine protective care
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
doom · karma · foreordained · oracle · prophecy · omen · fatalism · lot · fortune · preordainment
resignation
Voluntary relinquishment of position
- surrenderCease resistance, yield
- acquiescenceUnresisting acceptance
- stoicismUncomplaining acceptance of difficulty
fatalism · yielding · submission · coming to terms · letting go · acknowledgment · capitulation · making peace · reconciliation · relinquishment
passage
Segment of text
- entropyQuantified chaos in systems
- changeTo make different
- progressionSequential forward movement
aging · seasons · cycles · erosion · decay · march of time · temporal · transience · flux · continuity
death
Cessation of life
entropy · impermanence · transience · finitude · funeral · mourning · grief · terminal · demise · end of life
inescapable
Impossible to avoid
- unpreventableImpossible to stop ahead
- certainFree from doubt
- sureFree from uncertainty
inexorable · predetermined · irrevocable · foregone · guaranteed · incontrovertible · undeniable · unalterable · unstoppable · immutable
outcome
Final result of events
- consequenceResult of an action
- culminationHighest or final point
- resultWhat follows a cause
endgame · denouement · finale · aftermath · climax · completion · termination · finality · resolution · eventuality
- fatedestiny, fate, kismet, Moira, fated
- possibilitiespossibility, chance, likelihood, probability, odds
- certaintiesfact, truth, proof, certainty, guarantee
- inevitabilitiesdeath, mortality, taxes, fate, destiny
- free willfree will, choice, volition, autonomy, initiative
- fatalismdestiny, doom, kismet, predestination, determinism
inevitabilityuncertainty
State of being unsure
improbability · doubtfulness · unlikelihood · doubt · unlikeliness
inevitabilitypreventability
Capacity to be stopped
avoidability · controllability · escapability · optionality · choice
inevitabilitycontingency
Uncertain possible event
randomness · chance · fortuity · conditionality · impossibility