Fatalism

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  • noun. The doctrine that all events are predetermined by fate and are therefore unalterable.
  • noun. Acceptance of the belief that all events are predetermined and inevitable.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or come or go by inevitable predetermination.
  • noun. A disposition to regard everything as the result of or predetermined by fate; the acceptance of all conditions and events as inevitable.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. fate, fatality, the doctrine that all events are subject to fate or inevitable necessity, or determined in advance in such a way that human beings cannot change them.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them
  • noun. a submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable
    • Word Usage
    "I learned the word fatalism at a young age and after I got over the idea that it meant something about death, I grew very attached to it."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    free will  freedom  indeterminism  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    acceptance  credence  determinism  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    agnosticism  apathy  asceticism  atheism  bigotry  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    determinism  predestination  predeterminism  
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