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fatalism
[ feyt-l-iz-uhm ]
noun
- the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to fate:
Her fatalism helped her to face death with stoic calm.
- Philosophy. the doctrine that all events are subject to fate or inevitable predetermination.
fatalism
/ ˈڱɪəˌɪə /
noun
- the philosophical doctrine that all events are predetermined so that man is powerless to alter his destiny
- the acceptance of and submission to this doctrine
- a lack of effort or action in the face of difficulty
Derived Forms
- ˈڲٲ, noun
- ˌڲٲˈپ, adjective
- ˌڲٲˈپally, adverb
Other 51Թ Forms
- ڲ·ٲ· noun adjective
- ڲ·ٲ··پ [feyt-l-, is, -tik], adjective
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Example Sentences
O’Meara’s children believe she may have harbored a sense of fatalism about what was coming.
They exorcised the fatalism that permeated their organization for almost the entirety of its existence.
“It was important telling the story of someone that is dying in a world that is also dying,” Almodóvar says of the fatalism present in the film.
There’s a fierceness to the romantic doom of the new “Nosferatu,” a muscular fatalism achingly vulnerable and ferocious, feminine and masculine, both and neither.
A week after President Assad's regime fell, the sense of freedom here comes tinged with fatalism.
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