inexorability means the quality or state of being inexorable. It carries an Arena rating of 1495, earned across 29 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, inexorability ranks #425 of 13,276 for Scariest Words, #614 of 13,276 for Most Ponderous Words, #2,877 of 13,276 for Most Sublime Words, #3,142 of 13,276 for Words That Escaped Their Books.
Why “inexorability” is a great word
INEXORABILITY — [Noun] The quality or state of being unyielding, unchangeable, and impossible to stop or prevent. From the Latin inexorabilitas, from inexorabilis ("inexorable, unyielding"), itself from in- ("not") + exorabilis ("able to be entreated, persuadable"). Unlike "inflexibility," which suggests a rigid character or choice, or "inevitability," which declares an outcome certain, inexorability emphasizes the relentless, unappeasable process itself. It is the glacier's millennial grind shearing mountains to gravel, the tide's unwavering crawl claiming the shore grain by grain, and the metronomic drip of water wearing a hollow in stone—a law of the universe that feels, to the living, like a perfect, deafening indifference.
Etymology
From Latin inexorabilitas.
noun
- The quality or state of being inexorable.“The inexorability of global warming gave people a reason to reduce automobile use.”
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