fatalists
Que sera believers
Fatalists believe that events are predetermined and beyond human control.
The term usually carries a negative connotation—fatalists accept outcomes passively rather than trying to change them: The fatalists on the team had already given up before the game started.
A fatalist might shrug at bad news, seeing resistance as pointless.
Divinely predetermined fate
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- providenceDivine protective care
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
- fortuneWealth or destiny
lot · foreordained · preordained · stars · karma · ordained · destined · fated
Unavoidable grim fate
- gloomPervasive dimness or dejection
- hopelessnessState without hope
- despairTotal absence of hope
- defeatismAcceptance of inevitable failure
negativity · bleakness · nihilism · cynicism · dread · foreboding · melancholy · despondency
Consent to receive
- surrenderCease resistance, yield
- passivityState of non-resistance
- acquiescenceUnresisting acceptance
- submissionYielding to another's will
yielding · capitulation · stoicism · apathy · indifference · compliance · letting go · giving up
Uncomplaining acceptance of difficulty
- existentialismPhilosophy stressing self-created meaning
- absurdismPhilosophy embracing existence's irrationality
- CalvinismPredestinarian Protestant theology
- SchopenhauerGerman pessimist philosopher
Marcus Aurelius · Seneca · Camus · Nietzsche · Ecclesiastes · philosophical · metaphysical
Decision made in advance
- causalityCause-effect connection
- necessityIndispensable requirement
- mechanismMeans by which something operates
- hard determinismAll events causally predetermined
causal chain · inevitability · fixed · immutable · unchangeable · unalterable · predetermined · necessitated
predestination
Divinely predetermined fate
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- providenceDivine protective care
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
fortune · lot · foreordained · preordained · stars · karma · ordained · destined · fated · written
doom
Unavoidable grim fate
- gloomPervasive dimness or dejection
- hopelessnessState without hope
- despairTotal absence of hope
defeatism · negativity · bleakness · nihilism · cynicism · dread · foreboding · melancholy · despondency · catastrophizing
acceptance
Consent to receive
- surrenderCease resistance, yield
- passivityState of non-resistance
- acquiescenceUnresisting acceptance
submission · yielding · capitulation · stoicism · apathy · indifference · compliance · letting go · giving up · que sera sera
stoicism
Uncomplaining acceptance of difficulty
- existentialismPhilosophy stressing self-created meaning
- absurdismPhilosophy embracing existence's irrationality
- CalvinismPredestinarian Protestant theology
Schopenhauer · Marcus Aurelius · Seneca · Camus · Nietzsche · Ecclesiastes · philosophical · metaphysical
predetermination
Decision made in advance
- causalityCause-effect connection
- necessityIndispensable requirement
- mechanismMeans by which something operates
hard determinism · causal chain · inevitability · fixed · immutable · unchangeable · unalterable · predetermined · necessitated · caused
- negativistspessimists, defeatists, doomers, doomsayers, negative Nellies
- believersbeliever, believers, adherent, devotee, theist
fatalistsactivists
People working for causes
agents of change · go-getters · reformers · fighters · change agents
fatalistslibertarians
Advocates of minimal governance
activists · agents of change · indeterminists · existentialists · free agents