inexorableness

Cannot be stopped

Inexorableness is the quality of being impossible to stop, persuade, or change course.

It describes forces or people that proceed without yielding to appeals or opposition: the inexorableness of time, the inexorableness of his determination.

The word emphasizes relentless forward motion that cannot be deflected by pleas, arguments, or resistance.

persistence

tenacity

Persistent grip or resolve

perseverance · doggedness · indefatigable · unflagging · persistent · determined · unswerving · indomitable · unflinching · single-minded

unyielding

implacability

Inability to be appeased

inflexibility · rigidity · unbending · uncompromising · immovability · obstinacy · intractability · iron-willed · mercilessness · pitilessness

inevitability

fate

Predetermined course of events

inescapable · unavoidable · predestination · kismet · providence · foreordained · predetermined · immutable · irrevocable · unalterable

severity

sternness

Uncompromising strictness of manner

rigor · grimness · severity · gravity · seriousness · firmness · stringency · unrelieved · oppressiveness · bleakness

Opposites
yielding vs. unyielding

inexorablenessflexibility

Ability to adapt easily

pliability · malleability · persuadability · adaptability · bendability

mercy vs. mercilessness

inexorablenessleniency

Mildness in punishment

mercifulness · clemency · compassion · forgiveness · lenity

rigidity vs. adaptability

inexorablenessflexibility

Ability to adapt easily

adaptability · elasticity · suppleness · pliancy · adjustability

Family

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