What is the meaning of fatalism?

noun

  • A submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable.
  • A philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them. .
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