Fatalism

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fatalism \Fa"tal*ism\, n. [Cf. F. fatalisme.]
     The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that
     they take place by inevitable necessity.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



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