The quality of being unavoidable.
synonym: inevitability.
Roget 474:
certainty;
necessity
etc.
601;
certitude,
surety,
assurance;
dead certainty,
moral certainty;
infallibleness
etc.
adj.;
infallibility,
reliability;
indubitableness,
inevitableness,
unquestionableness†.
gospel,
scripture,
church,
pope,
court of final appeal;
res judicata [Lat.],
ultimatum positiveness;
dogmatism,
dogmatist,
dogmatizer;
doctrinaire,
bigot,
opinionist†,
Sir Oracle;
ipse dixit [Lat.].
fact;
positive fact,
matter of fact;
fait accompli [Fr.].
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Roget 601:
involuntariness;
instinct,
blind impulse;
inborn proclivity,
innate proclivity;
native tendency,
natural tendency;
natural impulse,
predetermination.
necessity,
necessitation;
obligation;
compulsion
etc.
744;
subjection
etc.
749;
stern necessity,
hard necessity,
dire necessity,
imperious necessity,
inexorable necessity,
iron necessity,
adverse necessity;
fate;
what must be.
destiny,
destination;
fatality,
fate,
kismet,
doom,
foredoom,
election,
predestination;
preordination,
foreordination;
lot fortune;
fatalism;
inevitableness
etc.
adj.;
spell
etc.
993.
star,
stars;
planet,
planets;
astral influence;
sky,
Fates,
Parcae,
Sisters three,
book of fate;
God's will,
will of Heaven;
wheel of Fortune,
Ides of March,
Hobson's choice.
last shift,
last resort;
dernier ressort [Fr.];
pis aller
etc.
(substitute)
147 [Fr.];
necessaries
etc.
(requirement)
630.
necessarian†,
necessitarian†;
fatalist;
automaton.
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Dutch: onvermijdelijkheid
Polish: nieuniknioność, nieuchronność, nieubłagalność