Fatalism - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈfeɪtəlɪzəm|  American pronunciation of the word fatalism
Brit.  |ˈfeɪt(ə)lɪz(ə)m|  British pronunciation of the word fatalism

noun

- a submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable
- a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them

Extra examples

Many people seem to have developed a sense of fatalism about the war.

...after a lifetime of setbacks, defeats, and failures, he could only greet the latest bad news with a resigned fatalism and dull torpor...

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