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"we are helpless in the face of destiny"nounthe ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman)
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nounan event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
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nounyour overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)type of:
Definition that contains destiny
- faith a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny
- religion a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny
- karma (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation
- doom an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
- doomsday an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
- predestination previous determination as if by destiny or fate
- fatalist anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny
- determinist anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny
- eschatology the branch of theology that is concerned with such final things as death and Last Judgment; Heaven and Hell; the ultimate destiny of humankind
- moirae any of the three Greek goddesses of fate or destiny; identified with the Roman Parcae and similar to the Norse Norns