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# inevitability

«inevitability» in Mova's school dictionary: **the fact that something is certain to happen and cannot…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (inevitability, inevitabilities)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Inevitability is the fact that something is certain to happen and cannot be avoided. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inevitability/#m1)

2) An inevitability is something that will surely happen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inevitability/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science, the inevitability of seasons and tides follows from how the Earth moves. In life, ageing and death are inevitabilities; in religion and ethics people think about how to live with them. In stories, a sense of inevitability builds when readers feel a disaster is coming. In maths, an event with probability 1 is certain.

### examples

- There was an inevitability about the result after the first goal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inevitability/#x1)
- Growing older is an inevitability. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inevitability/#x2)
- The inevitability of winter means we must store food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inevitability/#x3)
- The story built a sense of inevitability towards the shipwreck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inevitability/#x4)
- Change is an inevitability in every school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inevitability/#x5)
- Some people accept the inevitability of mistakes and learn from them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inevitability/#x6)

### note

Noun from «inevitable». Usually uncountable; «an inevitability» for one sure thing. In maths, certainty = probability 1.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «inevitability» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inevitability/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.