FATALISM
Fa"tal*ism, n. Etym: [Cf. F. fatalisme.]
Defn: The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.
FATALIST
Fa"tal*ist, n. Etym: [Cf. F. fataliste.]
Defn: One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.
FATALISTIC
Fa`tal*is"tic, a.
Defn: Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.
FATALITY
Fa*tal"i*ty, n.;pl. Fatalities. Etym: [L. fatalitas: cf. F. fatalité]
1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South.
2. The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility. The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality. Ser T. Browne. By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting. Eikon Basilike.
3. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. Dryden.