DETERMINIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does determinist mean? 

• DETERMINIST (noun)
  The noun DETERMINIST has 1 sense:

1. anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny

  Familiarity information: DETERMINIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DETERMINIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

determinist; fatalist; predestinarian; predestinationist

Hypernyms ("determinist" is a kind of...):

necessitarian (someone who does not believe the doctrine of free will)

Derivation:

determinism ((philosophy) a philosophical theory holding that all events are inevitable consequences of antecedent sufficient causes; often understood as denying the possibility of free will)