- fatalism (n.)
- 1670s as a philosophical doctrine that all things are determined by fate, from fatal + -ism. Meaning "disposition to accept all conditions and events as inevitable" is from 1734.
- fatalist (n.)
- 1640s, adherent of the philosophical doctrine that all things are determined by fate; from fatal + -ist. General sense of "one who accepts every condition and event as inevitable" is from 1734.
- fatalistic (adj.)
- "savoring of fatalism," 1757, from fatalist + -ic.