"fatalism" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: fatalisms [plural]
Etymology: fatal + -ism Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|fatal|ism}} fatal + -ism Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} fatalism (countable and uncountable, plural fatalisms)
  1. (metaphysics, philosophy) 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. Wikipedia link: fatalism Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Metaphysics, Philosophy Synonyms: determinism, kismet, predestination, predeterminism Related terms: amor fati, fatality, fate, compatibilism (alt: Compatibilism), incompatibilism (alt: Incompatibilism) Translations (doctrine that all events are subject to fate): fatalisme [masculine] (Catalan), 宿命論 (Chinese Mandarin), 宿命论 (sùmìnglùn) (Chinese Mandarin), fatalismus [masculine] (Czech), fatalisme [neuter] (Dutch), fatalismi (Finnish), kohtalousko (Finnish), fatalisme [masculine] (French), fatalismo [masculine] (Galician), Fatalismus [masculine] (German), fatalizmus (Hungarian), fatalismo (Ido), kepasrahan (Indonesian), fatalismo [masculine] (Italian), 운명론 (unmyeongnon) (alt: 運命論) (Korean), 숙명론 (sungmyeongnon) (alt: 宿命論) (Korean), fatalizm [masculine] (Polish), fatalismo [masculine] (Portuguese), ਭਾਗਵਾਦ (bhāgvād) [masculine] (Punjabi), fatalism [neuter] (Romanian), фатали́зм (fatalízm) [masculine] (Russian), fatalizam [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), fatalismo [masculine] (Spanish), fätim (Volapük), tyngedfenyddiaeth [feminine] (Welsh)

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      "sense": "doctrine that all events are subject to fate",
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      "sense": "doctrine that all events are subject to fate",
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