fatalisme
French, noun/fa.ta.lism/
fatalisme is spelled F-A-T-A-L-I-S-M-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 42,227th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fatalisme is a French masculine noun meaning “fatalism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Doctrine exposant que la situation et les événements (désagréables) sont à mettre au compte de la fatalité…”.
What does fatalisme mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefatalism
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Doctrine exposant que la situation et les événements (désagréables) sont à mettre au compte de la fatalité, ou de la volonté divine. Négation du libre arbitre. 2. Résignation devant le cours des choses, sur lequel on s’abstient d’agir. 3. Enchaînement fatal, inévitable, logique.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fatalisme
- fatalismes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fatalisme?
- /fa.ta.lism/
- /fa.ta.lizm/
- \fa.ta.lism\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fatalisme
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fatalisme in French?
fatalisme appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).