ineluctability
- noun
- /ˌɪnɪˈlʌktəˌbɪlɪti/
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ineluctabilidad
Examples
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Against the Day is concerned with that ineluctability, and I would go so far as to lay it down as a general rule that every novel in which there's an element of time travel is concerned, as a matter of tense, not with the future, but the future perfect.
Blog text (21) -
Another way to consider the novel's relation to an ineluctability seemingly at odds with the Romanwelt would be through the multiple models of reading offered in the text itself.
Academic text (2018) -
And Vasari's narrative structure, with its sense of ineluctability owed to an evolutionary model derived from the ancient orators and their ideas about imitation, would seem to be just such an imposition of order, one that Vasari would not otherwise have perceived.
Academic text (1991) -
In James Madison's famous essay on the ineluctability and danger of factions, he defended representative government by distinguishing what he called a "pure democracy" and a "republic." 225 "A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place... promises the cure for which we are seeking." 226
Academic text (2016) -
The ineluctability of climate change means that we must take immediate action to mitigate its effects.
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Despite our efforts, the ineluctability of time passing makes it impossible to relive our childhood.
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She accepted the ineluctability of death and chose to live her life fully each day.
Synonyms
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5.8
Something that cannot be avoided and will happen
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9.9
Something that cannot be stopped or changed
A situation that cannot be stopped or prevented
The quality of not stopping no matter what happens
A situation in which two things cannot be separated
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word ineluctability includes in- meaning 'not' and the root luct- meaning 'struggle', as in the familiar word reluctant. So ineluctability points to something you cannot struggle out of, which is why it means 'impossible to avoid'.