fatalism
noun
1 fatalism
A submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable.
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: fatalisme
Polish: fatalizm
2 fatalism
A philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them.
Dutch: fatalisme
Polish: fatalizm
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