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Inexorability

Definition: Inexorability

Inexorability

Noun

1. Mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or let up; "the relentlessness or their pursuit".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "inexorability" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Synonyms: Inexorability

Synonyms: inexorableness (n), relentlessness (n). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Inexorability

"Inexorability" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inexorability" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Inexorability

Language Translations for "inexorability"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

papërkulim. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏قسوة (asperity, austerity, cruelty, hardheartedness, hardness, harshness, inhumanity, mercilessness, pitilessness, rigidity, rigor, rigour, ruggedness, severity, sternness, strictness, stringency, violence), ‏تصلب في الرأي, ‏عناد (inflexibility, intransigence, obduracy, obstinacy, pertinacity, perverseness, perversity, refractory, stiffness, stoutness, stubbornness, tenacity, waywardness, wilfulness), ‏عدم الرحمة (remorselessness, ruthlessness). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

неумолимост (implacability, inflexibility). (various references)

   

Czech

  

neúprosnost. (various references)

   

French

  

inexorabilité. (various references)

   

German

  

Unerbittlichkeit (grimness, implacability). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αδυσώπητο (relentlessness). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hajthatatlanság (relentlessness, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigour). (various references)

   

Italian

  

inesorabilit (obduracy). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

inexorabilityay

   

Portuguese

  

inexorabilidade, inesgotável. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

неумолимость (deadliness, implacability). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

neumoljivost (implacability). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

inexorabilidad. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

insafsızlık (inequity, injustice, ruthlessness, unfairness), direngenlik, amansızlık (implacability), acımasızlık (atrocity, cold blood, cruelty, harshness, implacability, pitilessness, ruthlessness, truculence). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

безжалісність. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tính không mủi lòng (impassibility, impassibleness, inexorableness), tính không lay chuyển được (impregnability, inexorableness), tính không động tâm (inexorableness). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Inexorability"

Words rhyming with "inexorability" (pronounced 'In*ex`o*ra*bil"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Inexorability

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-i-i-l-n-o-r-t-x-y"

-3 letters: inexorably, liberation.

-4 letters: inability, libration, linearity.

-5 letters: baritone, barytone, bilinear, binately, brainily, inertial, interlay, laborite, libation, nobility, obtainer, oriental, ornately, relation, reobtain, taborine, tailbone.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Inexorability


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 6E 65 78 6F 72 61 62 69 6C 69 74 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01101110 01100101 01111000 01101111 01110010 01100001 01100010 01101001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006E 0065 0078 006F 0072 0061 0062 0069 006C 0069 0074 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

43807190818467687578758691

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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