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Unvoidable vs Unavoidable - What's the difference?

unvoidable | unavoidable |

As adjectives the difference between unvoidable and unavoidable

is that unvoidable is that cannot be voided while unavoidable is impossible to avoid; bound to happen.

As a noun unavoidable is

something that cannot be avoided.

unvoidable

English

Adjective

(-)
  • That cannot be voided.
    • an unvoidable term in a contract

    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