Predetermination

3 definitions found

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

  Predetermination \Pre`de*ter`mi*na"tion\, n. [Cf. F.
     pr['e]d['e]termination.]
     The act of previous determination; a purpose formed
     beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will.
     --Hammond.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  predetermination
       n 1: (theology) being determined in advance; especially the
            doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has
            foreordained every event throughout eternity (including
            the final salvation of mankind) [syn: {predestination},
            {foreordination}, {preordination}]
       2: the act of determining or ordaining in advance what is to
          take place

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  83 Moby Thesaurus words for "predetermination":
     absolute certainty, absoluteness, act of God, aforethought,
     assurance, assuredness, calculatedness, calculation,
     certain knowledge, certainness, certainty, certitude,
     dead certainty, definiteness, deliberateness, deliberation,
     determinacy, determinateness, express intention, expressness, fate,
     fatefulness, force majeure, forejudgment, forethought,
     indefeasibility, ineluctability, inerrability, inerrancy,
     inescapableness, inevasibleness, inevitability,
     inevitable accident, inevitableness, inexorability, infallibilism,
     infallibility, inflexibility, intentionality, irrevocability,
     necessity, nonambiguity, noncontingency, parti pris, positiveness,
     preapprehension, preconception, preconclusion, preconsideration,
     predecision, predeliberation, predestination, predilection,
     predisposition, prejudgment, prejudication, prejudice,
     premature judgment, premeditation, prenotion, prepossession,
     preresolution, presumption, presupposal, presupposition,
     presurmise, probatum, proved fact, relentlessness, sureness,
     surety, truth, unambiguity, unavoidable casualty, unavoidableness,
     uncontrollability, undeflectability, unequivocalness, univocity,
     unmistakableness, unpreventability, unyieldingness, vis major