fateful
adjective
having momentous significance or consequences; decisively important; portentous.
fatefulness
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a word derived from
fateful.
Example Sentences
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After this jaunty opening, the mood of the ballet darkened to one of mystery and fatefulness.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2018
That certainty wanes, but the sense of thwarted fatefulness, and of a nagging missed opportunity, rises.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2018
The fatefulness of their climb haunts many million others.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2012
I cannot overemphasize the fatefulness of such a step.
From Time Magazine Archive
Perhaps his strangely sensitive mind felt too powerfully the fatefulness of the moment and reacted with a sort of lightness that did not really represent the real man.
From Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson
