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Webster 1913 Edition


Fatalism

Fa′tal-ism

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Noun.
[Cf. F.
fatalisme
.]
The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.

Webster 1828 Edition


Fatalism

FA'TALISM

,
Noun.
The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.

Definition 2024


fatalism

fatalism

English

Noun

fatalism (countable and uncountable, plural fatalisms)

  1. 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.

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Are fate and choice compatible?



Romanian

Etymology

Borrowing from French fatalisme.

Noun

fatalism n (uncountable)

  1. fatalism

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