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destiny

noun
/ˈdɛs.tɪ.ni/CA/ˈdes.tɪ.ni/

Etymology

From Middle English destine et al., from Old French destinee, from Latin dēstinō (English destine). Displaced Old English wyrd.

  1. derived from destino
  2. derived from destinee
  3. inherited from destine

Definitions

  1. That to which any person or thing is destined

    That to which any person or thing is destined; a predetermined state; a condition predestined by the Divine or by human will.

    • Death is the destiny of all mortal men.
    • Her death (April 18, 1881) left the Empress Ts‘ŭ Hsi, the playmate of her youth, the sole Regent of China, with the destiny of four hundred millions of human beings in her hands.

  2. That which is inevitable in the fullness of time.

    • Ain't no use to fight it / Don't tamper with my destiny / Any way you slice it / I'm in the hands of fate, you see

  3. One's eventual fate (not necessarily inevitable or predestined).

    • Everywhere the atom bombs are dropping / It's the end of all humanity / No more time for last-minute shopping / It's time to face your final destiny
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. The fixed order of things

      The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; an irresistible power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.

      • Dara doesn't believe in using dating apps - she insists that destiny will find her other half.
      • There were two kinds of beardom opposed here, two futures, two destinies.

    2. An unincorporated community in Osceola County, Florida, United States.

    3. A female given name from English.

      • The man smiled and extended his hand. "I'm Cole." Rebecca took his hand. "Destiny." She'd chosen the name because she felt as though she'd discovered just that the day she realized what her mission in life was to be.

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Derived

date with destiny, destinist, destinyless, manifest destiny, predestiny

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at destiny. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01destiny02fullness03fate04predetermines05predetermine06foredoom07doom

A definitional loop anchored at destiny. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at destiny

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA