Categorical vs Unavoidable - What's the difference?
categorical | unavoidable |
absolute; having no exception
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* 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 74:
of, pertaining to, or using a category or categories
Impossible to avoid; bound to happen.
(legal) Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void.
Something that cannot be avoided.
* 1825 , The London magazine (volume 12, page 490)
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)- 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.
Synonyms
* absolute, categoric, unconditionalAntonyms
* exceptional, conditional, hypothetical, relativeDerived terms
* acategorical * categorical imperative * categoricalnessunavoidable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- (Blackstone)
Usage notes
* See usage notes at inevitable.Synonyms
* (impossible to avoid) inescapable, inevitableAntonyms
* (impossible to avoid) avoidableNoun
(en noun)- Forty years before, I had thought this odour one of the necessities of life — one of the unavoidables at least