fatalismn.
/ˈfeɪtl̩ɪz(ə)m/, /ˈfeɪtəlɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈfeɪdlˌɪzəm/ 1. The belief in fatality; the doctrine that all things are determined by fate; a particular form of this doctrine.In early use not distinguished from ‘the doctrine of necessity’, i.e. the doctrine that all events take place in accordance with unvarying laws of causation. In strict etymological propriety, and in the best modern usage, it is restricted to the view which regards events as predetermined by an arbitrary decree.
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the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > fatalism
fatality1673
fatalism1678
predestinationism1874
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. i. 6 We shall oppose those three Fatalisms..as so many false Hypotheses of the Mundane System.
1733 G. Berkeley Theory of Vision §6. 9 Pantheism, Materialism, Fatalism are nothing but Atheism a little disguised.
1774 J. W. Fletcher Hist. Ess. in First Pt. Equal Check 23 Fatalism, in which the greatest infidels unanimously shelter themselves.
1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux I. ii. v. 205 You are..a believer in the fatalism of Spinosa.
1876 L. Stephen Hist. Eng. Thought 18th Cent. (1881) I. 298 Fatalism assumes what necessity excludes, the existence of an arbitrary element in the universe.
2. Acquiescence in the decree of fate; submission to everything that happens as inevitable.
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the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > fatalism > submission to fate
fatalism1744
1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North 127 (margin) A Turk convinced against Fatalism.
1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. vi. 194 The fatalism of the Greeks was very remote..from the dogma.
1871 J. Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. (1878) 188 This acquiescence which is really not so far removed from fatalism.
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