inevitableness

Cannot be prevented

The quality of being impossible to avoid or prevent.

Inevitableness carries the same meaning as inevitability but sounds more cumbersome and appears far less frequently.

The inevitableness of death works, but most writers would choose inevitability instead.

certainty

inescapability

State of being certain

definiteness · conclusiveness · inexorability · guarantee · irrefutability · constancy · conviction · permanence · infallibility · finality

destiny

predestination

Divinely predetermined fate

providence · karma · doom · lot · determinism · fatalism · preordainment · calling · legacy · wheel of fortune

compulsion

necessity

Indispensable requirement

imperative · binding force · forcedness

imminence

approaching

Coming toward something

forthcoming · oncoming · brewing · threatening · dawning · emerging · incipient · convergence · unstoppability · relentlessness

Opposites
certainty of occurrence

inevitablenesscontingency

Uncertain possible event

uncertainty · randomness · unpredictability · chanciness · doubtfulness

causal determination

inevitablenessindeterminacy

Lack of fixed outcome

free will · optionality · possibility · openness · variability

avoidability

inevitablenessavoidability

Capacity for prevention

preventability · escapability · controllability · alterability · changeability

Family

evade, inevitable, evasion, inevitably, inevitability, evitable, inevitables, inevitabilities

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