destiny
noun
1 destiny
An event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future.
synonym: fate.
Roget 121:
futurity,
futurition;
future,
hereafter,
time to come;
approaching time,
coming time,
subsequent time,
after time,
approaching age,
coming age,
subsequent age,
after age,
approaching days,
coming days,
subsequent days,
after days,
approaching hours,
coming hours,
subsequent hours,
after hours,
approaching ages,
coming ages,
subsequent ages,
after ages,
approaching life,
coming life,
subsequent life,
after life,
approaching years,
coming years,
subsequent years,
after years;
morrow;
millennium,
doomsday,
day of judgment,
crack of doom,
remote future.
approach of time advent,
time drawing on,
womb of time;
destiny
etc.
152;
eventuality.
heritage,
heirs posterity.
prospect
etc.
(expectation)
507;
foresight
etc.
510.
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Roget 152:
destiny
etc.
(necessity)
601;
future existence,
post existence;
hereafter;
future state,
next world,
world to come,
after life;
futurity
etc.
121;
everlasting life,
everlasting death;
life beyond the grave,
world beyond the grave;
prospect
etc.
(expectation)
507.
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Roget 507:
expectation,
expectance,
expectancy;
anticipation,
reckoning,
calculation;
foresight
etc.
510.
contemplation,
prospection†,
lookout;
prospect,
perspective,
horizon,
vista;
destiny
etc.
152.
suspense,
waiting,
abeyance;
curiosity
etc.
455;
anxious expectation,
ardent expectation,
eager expectation,
breathless expectation,
sanguine expectation;
torment of Tantalus.
hope
etc.
858;
trust
etc.
(belief)
484;
auspices
etc.
(prediction)
511;
assurance,
confidence,
presumption,
reliance.
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Roget 601:
involuntariness;
instinct,
blind impulse;
inborn proclivity,
innate proclivity;
native tendency,
natural tendency;
natural impulse,
predetermination.
necessity,
necessitation;
obligation;
compulsion
etc.
744;
subjection
etc.
749;
stern necessity,
hard necessity,
dire necessity,
imperious necessity,
inexorable necessity,
iron necessity,
adverse necessity;
fate;
what must be.
destiny,
destination;
fatality,
fate,
kismet,
doom,
foredoom,
election,
predestination;
preordination,
foreordination;
lot fortune;
fatalism;
inevitableness
etc.
adj.;
spell
etc.
993.
star,
stars;
planet,
planets;
astral influence;
sky,
Fates,
Parcae,
Sisters three,
book of fate;
God's will,
will of Heaven;
wheel of Fortune,
Ides of March,
Hobson's choice.
last shift,
last resort;
dernier ressort [Fr.];
pis aller
etc.
(substitute)
147 [Fr.];
necessaries
etc.
(requirement)
630.
necessarian†,
necessitarian†;
fatalist;
automaton.
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Dutch: bestemming, levenslot, lot, lotsbeschikking, lotsbestemming, providentie, voorbeschikking, voorbestemming, voorzienigheid
Polish: fatalizm, fatalność, przeznaczenie, fatum, los, mojra, dola, predestynacja
2 destiny
The ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman):
— We are helpless in the face of destiny.
synonym: fate.
Dutch: beschikking, lot
3 destiny
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