0 believing that people cannot change the way events will happen and that events, especially bad ones, cannot be avoided:
She was fatalistic about the future.
He had a fatalistic acceptance of his bad luck in life.
They have an almost fatalistic belief that ordinary people can't change anything.
The belief that characteristics are mostly genetic may encourage a fatalistic attitude toward health and disease.
His understanding of dependency grew from a progressive, albeit masculinist, perspective that certainly rejected the fatalistic conservatism of his day.
The certainty offered by religious or spiritual conviction provided a counterbalance to an otherwise fatalistic acceptance of the vicissitudes of eventful and difficult lives.
By the time she takes her fatalistic attitude to the settlement, ' 'everything human had been crushed out of her.
However, the moderate success and many difficulties facing psychiatric genetics have by no means led to fatalistic attitude.
Education may inculcate a greater sense of personal responsibility for the welfare of children, replacing the more fatalistic approach of the uneducated father.
