PREDESTINATIONIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does predestinationist mean? 

• PREDESTINATIONIST (noun)
  The noun PREDESTINATIONIST has 1 sense:

1. anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny

  Familiarity information: PREDESTINATIONIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREDESTINATIONIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

determinist; fatalist; predestinarian; predestinationist

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

necessitarian (someone who does not believe the doctrine of free will)

Derivation:

predestination ((theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind))

predestination (previous determination as if by destiny or fate)