FATALISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fatalism mean? 

• FATALISM (noun)
  The noun FATALISM has 2 senses:

1. a submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable

2. a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them

  Familiarity information: FATALISM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FATALISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("fatalism" is a kind of...):

acceptance; credence (the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("fatalism" is a kind of...):

determinism ((philosophy) a philosophical theory holding that all events are inevitable consequences of antecedent sufficient causes; often understood as denying the possibility of free will)

Derivation:

fatalist (anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny)

fatalistic (of or relating to fatalism)