fates
What ultimately happens
Fates is the plural of fate, referring to destinies or outcomes beyond human control.
People speak of the fates of individuals, nations, or enterprises: The fates of the two brothers diverged wildly.
To leave something to the fates is to abandon it to chance or providence. (Capitalized Fates refers to the mythological goddesses.)
Wealth or destiny
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- providenceDivine protective care
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
lot · karma · serendipity · chance · luck · foreordination · predetermination · wheel of fortune
Unavoidable grim fate
- deathCessation of life
- endFinal portion or cessation
- inescapableImpossible to avoid
- unavoidableImpossible to prevent
sealed · irreversible · downfall · ruin · demise · destruction · judgment · reckoning
fortune
Wealth or destiny
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- providenceDivine protective care
doom · lot · karma · serendipity · chance · luck · foreordination · predetermination · wheel of fortune · future
doom
Unavoidable grim fate
- deathCessation of life
- endFinal portion or cessation
- inescapableImpossible to avoid
unavoidable · sealed · irreversible · downfall · ruin · demise · destruction · judgment · reckoning · sentence
sisters
Female kin or nuns
spinning · measuring · cutting · roman · mythology · pantheon · deities · divine · trio · life
oracle
Authoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
omen · soothsayer · prophecy · foretell · portent · harbinger · sibyl · foresight · presage · forewarning
- Classical MythologyZeus, Apollo, Venus, Athena, Aphrodite
- Greek mythologyZeus, Athena, Apollo, Hera, Poseidon
- mythologyZeus, Apollo, Athena, Poseidon, Odin
- immortalsgods, deities, divine beings, immortals, eternals
- minor deitiesgodlings, demigods, household gods, Lares, penates
- Norse folkloresagas, elf, troll, Norse myths, dwarf
fateschoices
Available options to pick
free will · wills · decisions · self-determination · agency
fateschances
Probabilities of occurrence
randomness · chance · accidents · contingencies · possibilities
- twist of fateUnexpected reversal of fortune
- fatal flawRuinous character defect
- tempting fateRisking bad outcomes recklessly
- tempt fateRecklessly invite misfortune
- fatal accidentUnintended event causing death
- fatal woundInjury causing death
fate, fatal, fated, fateful, fatality, fatalism, fatalities, fatalistic, fatalist