Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fatalism"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fatalism \Fa"tal*ism\, n. [Cf. F. fatalisme.]
The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that
they take place by inevitable necessity.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
fatalism
n : a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are
predetermined in advance for all time and human beings
are powerless to change them
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