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fatalism (n.)

1670s as a philosophical doctrine that all things are determined by fate, from fatal + -ism. Meaning "disposition to accept all conditions and events as inevitable" is from 1734.

Fatalism is a doctrine which does not recognize the determination of all events by causes, in the ordinary sense; holding, on the contrary, that a certain foreordained result will come about, no matter what may be done to prevent it. Fatalism is thus directly opposed to necessitarianism, according to which every event is determined by the events which immediately precede it in a mechanical way. [Century Dictionary]

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Definitions of fatalism from WordNet

fatalism (n.)
a submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable;
fatalism (n.)
a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them;
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