What's the difference between evitable and inevitable?

Evitable


Definition:

  • (a.) Avoidable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When, in the course of studying this behavior, moths are removed by stages from the natural circumstances of this interaction their evasion responses become much less invariant; that is, more evitable.
  • (2) Acoustic interneuronal systems within the thoracic ganglia and the brain have been examined for lapses in responsiveness and for other indications of transsynaptic instability that might correlate with the demonstrated behavioral evitability.
  • (3) The afferent nerve response of the noctuid auditory organ is highly stable; therefore, the source or sources of this evitability must lie down-stream in the moth central nervous system.
  • (4) The authors outline the procedure used for analysis of the necessary data in order to differentiate inevitable and evitable risks which damage the foetus and neonate and they analyzed the causes of different data from obstetric practice focused on prevention of hypoxia, immaturity, lethal congenital defects and factors from differentiated neonatalogical care.
  • (5) The possible survival value of some evitability in this behavior under natural circumstances is discussed.
  • (6) A final word about Anna and Bates, who are plunked back into the same kind of silence and mutual misunderstanding that defined their early relationship and which seems to be driving them inevitably toward a wholly evitable bad end.

Inevitable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not evitable; incapable of being shunned; unavoidable; certain.
  • (a.) Irresistible.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These immunocytochemical studies clearly demonstrated that cells encountered within the fibrous intimal thickening in the vein graft were inevitably smooth muscle cell in origin.
  • (2) A second Scottish referendum has turned from a highly probable event into an almost inevitable one.
  • (3) "Attempts to quantify existential risk inevitably involve a large helping of subjective judgment.
  • (4) That price is inevitably going to increase over the years and will be another millstone around the BBC’s neck.
  • (5) "Today a federal district court put up a roadblock on a path constructed by 21 federal court rulings over the last year – a path that inevitably leads to nationwide marriage equality," said Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the Human Rights Campaign.
  • (6) While there would inevitably be some interaction, Gibbs said, "I do not think the president approaches it like a boxing match."
  • (7) Instead of inevitable defeat there is uncertain cop-out.
  • (8) Abigail Aiken, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, said the numbers inevitably underrepresented the demand.
  • (9) We've all been living ahead of ourselves, so in many ways this was inevitable.
  • (10) The question of ethics inevitably arises, and should be considered before a concrete situation arises which leaves no time for reflection.
  • (11) In such circumstances faith in the project inevitably ebbs among the faithful.
  • (12) Lloyds said it would achieve many of the job cuts through making less use of contractors and voluntary severance but admitted that some compulsory redundancies may be inevitable.
  • (13) Inevitably, and necessarily, Labour has appeared split as the coalition has captured broad public support for its assault on the deficit.
  • (14) His message suggested a Grexit was now inevitable as he stressed the need for EU humanitarian programmes to forestall social implosion in Greece.
  • (15) The increase in movement of people both within the highlands of New Guinea and also to and fro between holo- and hyperendemic lowland areas and the highlands by policemen and semi-skilled personnel in one direction and by labourers in the other, together with a great increase in potential breeding sites, were virtually inevitable consequences of the development process as the intense communalism and geographical isolation of the highland people was broken down.
  • (16) This has improved the capacity of the neuroanaesthetist to mitigate the inevitable fluctuations which occur and prevent their ill effects.
  • (17) The competition between candidates is an inevitable consequence of the fact that animals cannot 'do more than one thing at a time', and is envisaged as taking place in the behavioural final common path.
  • (18) Nicola Dandridge, chief executive of Universities UK, which represents Britain's higher education sector, said the laws of demand and supply were inevitably forcing universities to examine their resources: "Some universities may face difficult decisions in relation to maintaining course provision in certain subject areas."
  • (19) Phagocytic killing in the presence of each monoclonal antibody paralleled the increase in chemiluminescence, suggesting that for this variant killing was an inevitable consequence of the interaction of polymorphonuclear leukocytes with gonococci opsonized with anti-pilus antibodies.
  • (20) It therefore seems inevitable that the region will have fallen back into a new recession in the third quarter And here's a summary of the data, showing that only two countries expanded: Ireland: 51.8 (2-month high) The Netherlands: 50.7 (13-month high) Germany: 47.4 (6-month high) Italy: 45.7 (6-month high) Austria: 45.1 (39-month low) Spain: 44.5 (6 month low) France: 42.7 (41-month low) Greece: 42.2 (4-month high) 9.07am BST EUROZONE RECESSION ALL BUT CERTAIN The eurozone's manufacturing sector shrank again in September, making a double-dip recession all but certain.