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Synonyms for predestination

Most common

destiny fate fatalism necessity

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    Destiny or fate.

Related words

Word family
predestinationist

Forms

Plural
predestinations → destinies, fates, fatalisms, necessities…

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Predestination is a previous determination or decision, which, in the divine action, reaches on from eternity.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Example sentences

  • fate Is Algeria heading towards the same fate as Syria?
  • destiny I acted to protect myself from a similar destiny.
  • fatalism Your fatalism is ruining everyone's mood.
  • election He was elected to the Senate in the last election.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
predestinationrising
faterising
destinyrising
fatalismsteady
preordinationrising
electionfalling

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
lot1
4 letters
fate1, doom1
6 letters
kismet2
7 letters
fortune2, destiny3
8 letters
election3, fatality4, fatalism4, foredoom
9 letters
necessity4
13 letters
foreknowledge, preordination
14 letters
foreordination

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (kismet2 = 2 syllables).