fatalism

English

Etymology

fatal +‎ -ism

Noun

fatalism (countable and uncountable, plural fatalisms)

1. (metaphysics, philosophy) The doctrine that all events are subject to fate or inevitable necessity, or determined in advance in such a way that human beings cannot alter them.

Synonyms

• determinism
• kismet
• predestination
• predeterminism

Antonyms

• free will
• freedom
• indeterminism

Related terms

• amor fati
• fatality
• fate

Translations

doctrine that all events are subject to fate

• Catalan: fatalisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宿命論／宿命论 (zh) (sùmìnglùn)

• Czech: fatalismus m
• Dutch: fatalisme (nl) n
• Finnish: fatalismi (fi), kohtalousko
• French: fatalisme (fr) m
• Galician: fatalismo m
• German: Fatalismus (de) m
• Ido: fatalismo (io)
• Indonesian: kepasrahan (id)
• Italian: fatalismo (it) m
• Korean: 운명론(運命論) (unmyeongnon), 숙명론(宿命論) (sungmyeongnon)
• Polish: fatalizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: fatalismo (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਭਾਗਵਾਦ m (bhāgvād)
• Romanian: fatalism (ro) n
• Russian: фатали́зм (ru) m (fatalízm)
• Serbo-Croatian: fatalizam (sh) m
• Spanish: fatalismo (es) m
• Volapük: fätim
• Welsh: tyngedfenyddiaeth f

See also

Are fate and choice compatible?

• compatibilism (Compatibilism)
• incompatibilism (Incompatibilism)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fatalisme.

Noun

fatalism n (uncountable)

1. fatalism

Declension

declension of fatalism (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) fatalism	fatalismul
genitive/dative	(unui) fatalism	fatalismului
vocative	fatalismule

Related terms

• fatal
• fatalist
• fatalitate