What's the difference between destinist and fatalist?
Destinist
Definition:
(n.) A believer in destiny; a fatalist.
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Fatalist
Definition:
(n.) One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.
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(1) Three constructs of TUA were identified: passive fatalistic, egoistic, and conscientious.
(2) A fatalistic attitude to the disease is combined with rumination and social withdrawal.
(3) David Birch, director of digital currency consultants Hyperion, argued that the fatalistic view of Scotland's previous experiment with multiple currencies was wrong, and that they more successful than history gives credit.
(4) When asked whether the task was economically viable when British companies faced competition from foreign, lower-paying multinationals, Miliband said: "I don't subscribe to that fatalistic view" and pointed out his examples of better models came from Germany, which has stayed competitive with countries such as China.
(5) Thirteen variables were examined for their association with compliance; these were age, sex, duration of hypertension since diagnosis, adequacy of blood pressure control, complexity of drug regimen and side-effect of drug, history of previous admission for hypertension related reason, patient's knowledge of hypertensive complications, patient's belief that drug was 'panas' or 'san', previous use of traditional treatment for hypertension, patient's fatalistic attitude, their social support and satisfaction with the health services.
(6) Generally, she is one of life's fatalists: Take a Little Pill and Illegitimate Children are desert-dry and bleak with it.
(7) Yet it is also not hard to find people who are fatalistic.
(8) It grinds us down until we adopt a worldview that is pessimistic, desensitised, sarcastic and fatalistic.
(9) The above consideration probably plays a major role in our attitudes of almost fatalistic resignation towards the youthful victims of trauma.
(10) According to Tim Briercliffe of the HTA, fatalistic-sounding civil servants told him that as the disease was already endemic on the continent it was likely to come to the UK.
(11) He was fatalistic about that, as sportspeople who persist through severe injury often are.
(12) All around the country, Sons of Iraq leaders, also known as members of the Awakening Council, or al-Sahwa, rattle off similar numbers of attempts on their lives with a fatalistic calm.
(13) I’m fatalistic – whatever is meant to be, will be.” Which isn’t to say you don’t put the work in.
(14) Although current smokers were cognitively aware of their added health risk, in comparison to past and "never" smokers, they minimized the salience of awareness by fatalistically attributing their health to chance factors such as luck and by minimizing the dangers of smoking, the benefits of smoking cessation, and their own increased vulnerability to life-threatening illnesses.
(15) A positive correlation was found between uncertainty about the future and fatalistic coping, and a negative correlation between depression and optimistic coping.
(16) Yet the response to them is no longer quite as fatalistic as it once was.
(17) Ali, my Aleppan taxi driver, was unfazed but fatalistic.
(18) But don't get me wrong, there are still Poles who remain good, old-fashioned fatalists.
(19) The results indicated a highly significant association between scores for the tendency to control emotional reactions and a fatalistic attitude toward cancer.
(20) And he thinks that what he offers on Thursday morning is an optimistic and less fatalistic message that can overcome those daunting poll numbers.