different between avoidable vs noninevitability

English

Etymology

From avoid +? -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??v??d?bl?/

Adjective

avoidable (comparative more avoidable, superlative most avoidable)

1. Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable.
2. Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped.

Synonyms

• (capable of being vacated): annullable, voidable
• (capable of being avoided): evitable; See also Thesaurus:avoidable

Antonyms

• (ALL): inavoidable, unavoidable
• (capable of being vacated): inviolable, unbreakable, unbreachable
• (capable of being avoided): inevitable; See also Thesaurus:inevitable

Translations

Noun

avoidable (plural avoidables)

1. Something that can or should be avoided.
   • 1980, Patrick White, The Twyborn Affair (page 38)

     Though Mrs Golson re-appeared regularly at the Twyborns', she was on my list of avoidables from the night of the corked moustache until she sprang upon us yesterday.

English

Etymology

non- +? inevitability

Noun

noninevitability (uncountable)

1. The property of not being inevitable, of perhaps being avoidable.