PREVENTthe belief that there is nothing you can do to prevent events from happening 宿命论 → fate
—fatalist noun [countableC]
Examples from the Corpus
fatalism• Malthus was burdened by a fatalisminduced by fears of populationgrowth and resourceshortages.• This is one aspect of our fatalism and paralysis.• A passivefatalism at the capriciousness and heavy-handedness of authority prevailed amongst the thirty-year men.• This has all to be seen in the context of the profoundfatalism about life itself.• The quiet flatness of her voice was mirrored by the fatalism he saw in her eyes.• Briefly optimistic at the start, it did not take much for the fatalism to set in.