Synonyms for fatalism
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : feyt-l-iz-uh m |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfeɪt lˌɪz əm |
Définition of fatalism
Origin :- 1670s, from fatal + -ism.
- noun resignation to a fate
- The unexpected march of events had converted him to the doctrine of fatalism.
- Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
- Perhaps the liquor brought him something of the chill Russian fatalism.
- Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
- In other words, you yield to what Mr. Bryce calls "the fatalism of the multitude."
- Extract from : « The American Mind » by Bliss Perry
- Let us not abandon the future of our race to the fatalism of Allah; let us create it ourselves!
- Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
- Her magnanimity, he tells us, is unexampled, and her fatalism pathetic.
- Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
- The fatalism that was her mood so often now told her that these things had to be.
- Extract from : « Audrey Craven » by May Sinclair
- The fatalism of youth, unlike that of age, is all rose-coloured.
- Extract from : « Lord Kilgobbin » by Charles Lever
- He waited, with the patience and the fatalism of infancy, for something to happen.
- Extract from : « A Great Man » by Arnold Bennett
- There was no answer to be made to this fatalism of utterance, and none to the worship of his eyes.
- Extract from : « They of the High Trails » by Hamlin Garland
- With the fatalism of youth they had accepted their tragedy as final.
- Extract from : « Glory of Youth » by Temple Bailey
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