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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, ... show more

Roget 152: destiny etc. (necessity) 601; future existence, post existence; hereafter; future state, next world, world to come, after life; futurity etc. 121; ... show more

Roget 507: expectation, expectance, expectancy; anticipation, reckoning, calculation; foresight etc. 510.    contemplation, prospection, lookout; prospect, perspective, ... show more

Roget 601: involuntariness; instinct, blind impulse; inborn proclivity, innate proclivity; native tendency, natural tendency; natural impulse, predetermination.    necessity, necessitation; obligation; compulsion etc. ... show more

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

Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you).

synonyms: circumstances, fate, fortune, lot, luck, portion.

Dutch: geluk, toedracht


Moby thesaurus: Friday, Friday the thirteenth, Heaven, Paradise, Z, a better place, accidentality, actuarial calculation, adventitiousness, afterlife, afterworld, allotment, allowance, apodosis, appointed lot, astral influences, astrology, big end, bigger half, bit ... show more.

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