destiny
Other forms: destinies
Destiny is what's meant to be, what's written in the stars, your inescapable fate. You might think it's your destiny to own a dog, but your sad goldfish survival rate should tell you that happy pets probably aren't in your future.
A noun meaning fate, destiny is synonymous with other nouns like divine decree, fortune, and serendipity. There's no avoiding destiny — it's going to happen no matter what you do. But before you get bogged down worrying about what the distant future holds, remember what Winston Churchill said: “It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.”
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the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman)“we are helpless in the face of destiny”synonyms: fatetype of:causal agency, causal agent, causeany entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results
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the overall circumstances or condition to which a person or thing is destined (including everything that happens to you)types:providencea manifestation of God's foresightful care for his creaturesfailurelack of successweaknessthe condition of being financially weakhard cheesebad luckbankruptcya state of complete lack of some abstract propertybank failurethe inability of a bank to meet its credit obligationscrop failurethe failure of crops to produce a marketable surplusdead ducksomething doomed to failuretype of:conditiona mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing
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an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the futuresynonyms: fatetypes:inevitablean unavoidable eventkarma(Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnationpredestinationprevious determination as if by destiny or fatetype of:
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