Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun fatalism

2 senses of fatalism

Sense 1
fatalism -- (a submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable)
       => credence, acceptance -- (the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true; "he gave credence to the gossip"; "acceptance of Newtonian mechanics was unquestioned for 200 years")

Sense 2
fatalism -- (a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them)
       => determinism -- ((philosophy) a philosophical theory holding that all events are inevitable consequences of antecedent sufficient causes; often understood as denying the possibility of free will)