All predestination synonyms
pre·des·ti·na·tion
P p noun predestination
- destiny — A person's destiny is everything that happens to them during their life, including what will happen in the future, especially when it is considered to be controlled by someone or something else.
- fatalism — the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to fate: Her fatalism helped her to face death with stoic calm.
- fate — something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot: It is always his fate to be left behind.
- inescapableness — The quality of being inescapable.
- constellation — A constellation is a group of stars which form a pattern and have a name.
- doom — fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune: In exile and poverty, he met his doom.
- kismet — fate; destiny.
- moira — Classical Mythology. the personification of fate. Moirai, the Fates.
- moirai — Classical Mythology. the personification of fate. Moirai, the Fates.
- determinism — Determinism is the belief that all actions and events result from other actions, events, or situations, so people cannot in fact choose what to do.
- necessitarianism — the doctrine that all events, including acts of the will, are determined by antecedent causes; determinism.
- foreordination — previous ordination or appointment.
- karma — Hinduism, Buddhism. action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation: in Hinduism one of the means of reaching Brahman. Compare bhakti (def 1), jnana.
- inevitability — unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary: an inevitable conclusion.
- lot — lot (def 14).
verb predestination
- lotted — one of a set of objects, as straws or pebbles, drawn or thrown from a container to decide a question or choice by chance.
- lotting — one of a set of objects, as straws or pebbles, drawn or thrown from a container to decide a question or choice by chance.
- cupped — hollowed like a cup; concave
- cupping — the process of applying a cupping glass to the skin
- dooming — fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune: In exile and poverty, he met his doom.
- circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.