Crossword-Solution: FATALISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fatalism | n. | The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity. |
We have 19 clues for the answer “FATALISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| belief that all events are predetermined and people are powerless to change their destinies | 1 answer |
| Submissive mental attitude | 1 answer |
| SUBMISSION to all that happens as inevitable | 1 answer |
| Belief in inevitability. | 1 answer |
| Acceptance of what comes | 1 answer |
| "What will be, will be" philosophy | 1 answer |
| law of nature | 3 answers |
| determinism | 5 answers |
| necessitude | 6 answers |
| dictation | 9 answers |
| white flag | 13 answers |
| Fatality | 28 answers |
| hard necessity | 36 answers |
| Homage | 54 answers |
| Deference | 58 answers |
| submission | 62 answers |
| Fortune | 70 answers |
| Necessity | 74 answers |
| Destiny | 83 answers |
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Sentences with FATALISM (5)
Those whose eyes thirty and more years before had seen "the glory of the coming of the Lord" saw in every present hindrance or help a dark fatalism bound to bring all things right in His own good time.
She had brushed in this outline of her career with light rapid strokes, and in a tone of fatalism oddly untinged by bitterness.
Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end? I confess that as I advance through life, I become more and more confirmed in that fatalism to which I have always had an inclination.
Now, while the short-sighted spectator begins to despair of humanity, and, distracted and cursing that of which he is ignorant, plunges into scepticism and fatalism, the true observer, certain of the spirit which governs the world, seeks to comprehend and fathom Providence.
Those whose eyes twenty-five and more years before had seen “the glory of the coming of the Lord,” saw in every present hindrance or help a dark fatalism bound to bring all things right in His own good time.
Quotes with FATALISM (3)
Hope is more the consequence of action than its cause. As the experience of the spectator favors fatalism, so the experience of the agent produces hope.
But I do like Scotland. I like the miserable weather. I like the miserable people, the fatalism, the negativity, the violence that's always just below the surface. And I like the way you deal with religion. One century you're up to your lugs in it, the next you're trading the whole apparatus in for Sunday superstores. Praise the Lord and thrash the bairns. Ask and ye shall have the door shut in your face. Blessed are they that shop on the Sabbath, for they shall get the best …
It is the kind of stoicism which had been seen as characteristic of Anglo-Saxon poetry, perhaps nowhere better expressed than in 'The Battle of Maldon' where the most famous Saxon or English cry has been rendered - 'Courage must be the firmer, heart the bolder, spirit must be the greater, as our strength grows less'. That combination of bravery and fatalism, endurance and understatement, is the defining mood of Arhurian legend.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1950–2016).