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Meaning of FATALISM

Pronunciation:  'feyt`lizum

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [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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 See Also: determinism

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Fa"tal*ism\, n. [Cf. F. fatalisme.]
The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that
they take place by inevitable necessity.
 

 

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