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fatalist

noun
/ˈfeɪtəlɪst/

Etymology

From fatal + -ist.

  1. derived from fātālis — “fatal”
  2. derived from fatal
  3. suffixed as fatalist — “fatal + -ist”

Definitions

  1. One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity

    One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity; a person who believes in fatalism.

    • “Maybe the problem is that you’re a romantic,” says my former lover-slash-friend-slash-male-sensitivity-reader. “And maybe so are the other fatalists.”
    • [Nick] Bostrom, the philosopher, expressed a sort of resignation about the AI future when we spoke. He used to call himself a “fretful optimist,” he said, but now he’s a “moderate fatalist.”

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