Inevitable vs Apparent - What's the difference?
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Impossible to avoid or prevent.
Predictable, or always happening.
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Something that is predictable, necessary, or cannot be avoided.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 22, author=Murray Whyte, title=Seeking successors to the Queen West gallery scene, work=Toronto Star
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Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view.
* 1667, (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) , ,
Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.
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* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 20
Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming.
* 1785, (Thomas Reid), Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man , Essay II (“Of the Powers we have by means of our External Senses”), Chapter XIX (“Of Matter and of Space”),
* 1848 , , (The History of England from the Accession of James the Second) ,
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As adjectives the difference between inevitable and apparent
is that inevitable is inevitable; unavoidable while apparent is capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view.inevitable
English
Adjective
(-)- We were going so fast that the collision was inevitable .
- My outburst met with the inevitable punishment.
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- This horse and rider, with their free, rhythmical gallop, were the only moving things to be seen on the face of the flat country. They seemed, in the last sad light of evening, not to be there accidentally, but as an inevitable detail of the landscape.
Usage notes
Largely synonymous with unavoidable, slightly more formal (borrowed as a unit from Latin, rather than formed in English), and with nuances of a natural consequence'' that occurs ''after – “inevitable punishment”, “inevitable result”. By contrast, (term) has some nuance of existing circumstances – “I was unavoidably detained.” – without there necessarily being a cause. Further, unavoidable'' has nuances of “could not have happened any other way, even if circumstances were different”, while inevitable''' connotes “''given'' circumstances, this is the necessary result.” Compare “the disaster was '''inevitable ”, meaning “sooner or later the disaster would happen (because they ''did not prepare'')” with “the disaster was ''unavoidable''”, meaning “even if they ''had prepared , the disaster would have happened”. Often used with a negative connotation, but may be used with a positive or neutral sense of fate, as in “Given our preparations, our victory was inevitable .” in which case *unavoidable is not acceptable. In the same manner, impreventable and inevitable'' have different nuances. The sense “the disease was inevitable'''” means “It was ''natural'' to suffer the disease”; the sense “the disease was '''impreventable ” means “There was ''no preventive methods against the disease”. Thus, "inevitable''" indicates "unable to avoid due to ''natural or necessary''''' matters", "''unavoidable''" indicates "unable to avoid due to '''''incidental''''' matters", ''impreventable'' indicates "unable to avoid due to '''''the absence of preventive methods ".Synonyms
* (impossible to avoid) inescapable, unavoidable, impreventable * (naturally impossible to avoid) natural, necessary * (always happening) certain, necessaryAntonyms
* (impossible to avoid) evitable, escapable, avoidable, preventable * (always happening) impossible, incidentalDerived terms
* inevitability * inevitably * inevitablenessNoun
(en noun)citation
Antonyms
* evitable * impossibleReferences
*inevitable/unavoidable, WordReference.com
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- […] Hesperus, that led / The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, / Rising in clouded majesty, at length / Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, / And o’er the dark her silver mantle threw.
- Salisbury: It is apparent foul-play; and ’tis shame / That greatness should so grossly offer it: / So thrive it in your game! and so, farewell.
- When I came to Renfield's room I found him lying on the floor on his left side in a glittering pool of blood. When I went to move him, it became at once apparent that he had received some terrible injuries.
- What (George Berkeley) calls visible magnitude was by astronomers called apparent magnitude.
- To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent friendship.
- This apparent motion is due to the finite velocity of light, and the progressive motion of the observer with the earth, as it performs its yearly course about the sun.
Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}