Fatalism is the belief that nothing you do can change what happens. A weary fatalism.
It is a comfort in a disaster and a poor guide to anything you could actually affect. Fatalism about a risk is what stops people taking the precautions that would work.
1nounfatalismThe belief that nothing you do can change what happens.
“There was a general fatalism about the weather that whole summer.”
fatalism is a belief.
From fatal + -ism.
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