0 the belief that people cannot change the way events will happen and that events, especially bad ones, cannot be avoided
1 the belief that people cannot change the way events will happen and that esp. bad events cannot be avoided
We are promised spiritual eternity, so why not a fatalism?
Such fatalism comes easily to societies beset by daunting and uncontrollable factors.
Poverty defined in the original sense of incorporating basic deprivation is associated with distinctively high levels of economic strain, psychological distress and fatalism.
There exists a certain sort of fatalism in accepting that the body beautiful is going to seed.
Longstanding poverty and the absence of hope reinforce the fatalism of living for the present in large segments of the population.
This fatalism links the doctrine of the political via negativa to domesticated pragmatism.
Responses to this question reflect a certain element of fatalism.
But it was a scepticism that often translated into pragmatism rather than fatalism.
