different between categorical vs inescapable

English

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /?kæt??????k(?)l/

Adjective

categorical (comparative more categorical, superlative most categorical)

1. Absolute; having no exception.
   • 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 74:

     Daytime interests are clearly not such far-reaching psychical sources of dreams as might have been expected from the categorical assertions that everyone continues to carry on his daily business in his dreams.

2. Of, pertaining to, or using a category or categories.

Synonyms

• (absolute; having no exception): absolute, categoric, unconditional

Antonyms

• (absolute; having no exception): exceptional, conditional, hypothetical, relative

Derived terms

• acategorical
• categorical imperative
• categoricalness

Related terms

• categoricity

Translations

Noun

categorical (plural categoricals)

1. (logic) A categorical proposition.

English

Alternative forms

• inescapeable (nonstandard spelling)

Etymology

in- +? escapable

Pronunciation

Adjective

inescapable (comparative more inescapable, superlative most inescapable)

1. Impossible (unable) to avoid or escape; not escapable.

   Synonyms: inevitable, unescapable

   Synonyms: escapable, evitable

Derived terms

• inescapably

Related terms

• escapability
• escapably
• inescapability
• unescapability
• unescapably

Translations

Spanish

Adjective

inescapable (plural inescapables)

1. inescapable