fatalism

Meanings

Plural: fatalisms

Noun

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

Synonyms

determinism, kismet, predestination, predeterminism

Antonyms

free will, freedom, indeterminism

Related Words

amor fati, compatibilism, fatality, fate, incompatibilism