fatalism : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: fatalism	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for fatalism
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fatalism n a submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.