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]