fatalism
[feyt-l-iz-uh m]
noun
the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to fate: Her fatalism helped her to face death with stoic calm.
Philosophy. the doctrine that all events are subject to fate or inevitable predetermination.
Origin of fatalism
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acceptance, stoicism, predestination, determinism, passivity, necessitarianismExamples from the Web for fatalism
Contemporary Examples of fatalism
Historical Examples of fatalism
The unexpected march of events had converted him to the doctrine of fatalism.
The Secret AgentJoseph Conrad
Perhaps the liquor brought him something of the chill Russian fatalism.
Ruggles of Red GapHarry Leon Wilson
In other words, you yield to what Mr. Bryce calls "the fatalism of the multitude."
The American MindBliss Perry
Let us not abandon the future of our race to the fatalism of Allah; let us create it ourselves!
The Sexual QuestionAugust Forel
Her magnanimity, he tells us, is unexampled, and her fatalism pathetic.
The Book of KhalidAmeen Rihani
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