fatefulness
Quality of destiny
Fatefulness is the quality of being momentous or decisive—carrying weight that will shape what comes after.
A fateful conversation changes the course of a relationship; its fatefulness lies in how much hinged on it.
The word often appears in retrospect, once consequences have become clear: Only later did we recognize the fatefulness of that decision.
Predetermined course of events
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- providenceDivine protective care
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- karmaSpiritual cause and effect
lot · fortune · doom · stars · wheel of fortune · serendipity · synchronicity · luck
Vitally important, deciding
- decisiveQuick to conclude
- criticalExpressing disapproval or importance
- consequentialHaving significant effects
- significantHaving notable importance
watershed · turning point · landmark · transformative · historic · epoch-making · defining · crucial
Prophetic indicator
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- presageIndicate beforehand
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
- signMark conveying information
warning · foretoken · prophecy · oracle · divination · soothsaying · clairvoyance · precognition
Impossible to avoid
- unavoidableImpossible to prevent
- certainFree from doubt
- predeterminedEstablished beforehand
- inexorableImpossible to prevent
irrevocable · unalterable · destined · preordained · immutable · fixed · sealed · ineluctable
Suggesting something bad approaches
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- uneaseMild persistent worry
trepidation · dark · menacing · haunting · eerie · sinister · impending · looming
destiny
Predetermined course of events
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- providenceDivine protective care
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
karma · lot · fortune · doom · stars · wheel of fortune · serendipity · synchronicity · luck · chance
pivotal
Vitally important, deciding
- decisiveQuick to conclude
- criticalExpressing disapproval or importance
- consequentialHaving significant effects
significant · watershed · turning point · landmark · transformative · historic · epoch-making · defining · crucial · weighty
omen
Prophetic indicator
sign · warning · foretoken · prophecy · oracle · divination · soothsaying · clairvoyance · precognition · vision
inescapable
Impossible to avoid
- unavoidableImpossible to prevent
- certainFree from doubt
- predeterminedEstablished beforehand
inexorable · irrevocable · unalterable · destined · preordained · immutable · fixed · sealed · ineluctable · foregone
ominous
Suggesting something bad approaches
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
unease · trepidation · dark · menacing · haunting · eerie · sinister · impending · looming · shadowed
fatefulnessrandomness
Lack of predictable pattern
chance · accident · happenstance · coincidence · arbitrariness
fatefulnessinconsequentiality
State of having no impact
triviality · insignificance · unimportance · ordinariness · mundaneness
fatefulnesscontingency
Uncertain possible event
indeterminacy · free will · unpredictability · open-endedness · uncertainty
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