What does fatalism mean?
A doctrine that events are predetermined and cannot be changed; a belief that everything that happens is inevitable and necessary. A state of being in which one accepts or resigns oneself to the inevitability of a particular outcome.
Example
"The philosopher's fatalism led him to believe that the course of human events was predetermined and could not be altered."
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