Meaning

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

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

originEtymology tree English fatal Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English fatalism From fatal + -ism.

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