fatalism

English

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fatalism

Wikipedia

Etymology

From 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

   • 2025 July 21, Jean Garnett, “The Trouble With Wanting Men”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 July 2025:

     Sure, maybe. We know — have long known — that romanticism and fatalism are dialectical lovers.

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 Danish: fatalisme c, skæbnetro c Dutch: fatalisme (nl) n Finnish: fatalismi (fi), kohtalousko French: fatalisme (fr) m Galician: fatalismo m German: Fatalismus (de) m Greek: φαταλισμός (el) m (fatalismós), μοιρολατρία (el) f (moirolatría) Hungarian: fatalizmus (hu) Icelandic: forlagatrú f 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: Cyrillic: фаталѝзам m Roman: fatalìzam (sh) m Spanish: fatalismo (es) m Swedish: fatalism (sv) c, ödestro (sv) c Ukrainian: фаталі́зм m (fatalízm) 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

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	fatalism	fatalismul
genitive-dative	fatalism	fatalismului
vocative	fatalismule

Related terms

• fatal
• fatalist
• fatalitate

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

fatalism

Wikipedia ^sv

Noun

fatalism c

1. fatalism

   Synonym: ödestro

Declension

Declension of fatalism

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	fatalism	fatalisms
	definite	fatalismen	fatalismens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Related terms

• fatalist
• fatalistisk

See also

• determinism
• predestination

References

• fatalism in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• fatalism in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• fatalism in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)