fatalism
(noun) a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them
fatalism
(noun) a submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable
Source: WordNet® 3.1
fatalism (countable and uncountable, plural fatalisms)
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.
• determinism
• predestination
• predeterminism
• free will
• freedom
• indeterminism
Source: Wiktionary
Fa"tal*ism, n. Etym: [Cf. F. fatalisme.]
Definition: The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 April 2025
(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”
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