fatalism
noun
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable
Types & categories
- acceptance hypernym
Sense 2 noun
a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them
Types & categories
- determinism hypernym
Related & opposite
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | acceptance |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | fatalist |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | fatalist |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | determinism |