English noun: fatalism | |||
1. | fatalism (cognition) a submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable | ||
Broader (hypernym) | acceptance, credence | ||
2. | fatalism (cognition) a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them | ||
Broader (hypernym) | determinism | ||