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Categorical vs Unavoidable - What's the difference?

categorical | unavoidable |

As adjectives the difference between categorical and unavoidable

is that categorical is absolute; having no exception while unavoidable is impossible to avoid; bound to happen.

As nouns the difference between categorical and unavoidable

is that categorical is (logic) a categorical proposition while unavoidable is something that cannot be avoided.

categorical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • absolute; having no exception
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  • * 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 74:
  • Daytime interests are clearly not such far-reaching psychical sources of dreams as might have been expected from the categorical assertions that everyone continues to carry on his daily business in his dreams.
  • of, pertaining to, or using a category or categories
  • Synonyms

    * absolute, categoric, unconditional

    Antonyms

    * exceptional, conditional, hypothetical, relative

    Derived terms

    * acategorical * categorical imperative * categoricalness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (logic) A categorical proposition.
  • unavoidable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Impossible to avoid; bound to happen.
  • (legal) Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void.
  • (Blackstone)

    Usage notes

    * See usage notes at inevitable.

    Synonyms

    * (impossible to avoid) inescapable, inevitable

    Antonyms

    * (impossible to avoid) avoidable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that cannot be avoided.
  • * 1825 , The London magazine (volume 12, page 490)
  • Forty years before, I had thought this odour one of the necessities of life — one of the unavoidables at least