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Imminency vs Inevitability - What's the difference?

imminency | inevitability |

As nouns the difference between imminency and inevitability

is that imminency is (archaic) imminence while inevitability is (uncountable) the condition of being inevitable.

imminency

English

Noun

(imminencies)
  • (archaic) imminence
  • *{{quote-book, year=1918, author=John L. B. Williams, A.M., title=Fighting France, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=His career as editor had been long enough, however, for him to impress upon the minds of the French public the imminency of the Prussian Peril. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1867, author=James Parton, title=Famous Americans of Recent Times, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=For Mr. Madison the caucus was unanimous, but there was a difference with regard to the Vice-Presidency, then filled by the aged George Clinton of New York, who represented the anti-Virginian wing of the party in power. Mr. Calhoun, in a set speech, opposed the renomination of Governor Clinton, on the ground that in the imminency of a war with England the Republican party ought to present an unbroken front. }}

    inevitability

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The condition of being inevitable.
  • (countable) An inevitable condition or outcome.
  • Synonyms

    * certainty * necessity

    Antonyms

    * evitability * impossibility * contingency