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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