Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1.
a submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable;
2.
a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Fatalism \Fa"tal*ism\, n. [Cf. F. fatalisme.]
The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that
they take place by inevitable necessity.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
fatalism
n 1: a submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of
the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined
and inevitable
2: a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are
predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are
powerless to change them