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Fatalism

noun

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Noun
  1. 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 alter them. countable, uncountable

    "Sure, maybe. We know — have long known — that romanticism and fatalism are dialectical lovers."

  2. 2
    a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them wordnet
  3. 3
    a submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable wordnet

Etymology

From fatal + -ism.

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