Definitions for fatalism

fatalism fa·tal·ism

Spelling: [feyt-l-iz-uh m]
IPA: /ˈfeɪt lˌɪz əm/

Fatalism is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 298 anagrams from letters in fatalism (aafilmst).

Definitions for fatalism

noun

  1. the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to fate:
  2. Philosophy. the doctrine that all events are subject to fate or inevitable predetermination.

Origin of fatalism

First recorded in 1670-80; fatal + -ism

Examples for fatalism

Let us not abandon the future of our race to the fatalism of Allah; let us create it ourselves!

Her magnanimity, he tells us, is unexampled, and her fatalism pathetic.

The fatalism that was her mood so often now told her that these things had to be.

The unexpected march of events had converted him to the doctrine of fatalism.

The Middle East was the source of an uncharacteristic vibe at Davos: fatalism.

In other words, you yield to what Mr. Bryce calls "the fatalism of the multitude."

This is in marked contrast to the fatalism you see in places like Russia and China, where partisanship is frowned upon.

He waited, with the patience and the fatalism of infancy, for something to happen.

Perhaps the liquor brought him something of the chill Russian fatalism.

The fatalism of youth, unlike that of age, is all rose-coloured.

Word Value for fatalism
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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