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/ˈfeɪtəlɪst/ · noun
One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity; a person who believes in fatalism..
....it is that, with every day, my love for you increases—though that would seem to be almost an impossibility. Why should I not become a fatalist? Remember how, on the third day that we ascended the Shlangenberg, I was moved to whisper in your ear: 'Say but the word, and I will leap into the abyss.' Had you said it, I should have leapt. Do you not believe me?"
“Maybe the problem is that you’re a romantic,” says my former lover-slash-friend-slash-male-sensitivity-reader. “And maybe so are the other fatalists.”
[Nick] Bostrom, the philosopher, expressed a sort of resignation about the AI future when we spoke. He used to call himself a “fretful optimist,” he said, but now he’s a “moderate fatalist.”
Use fatalist when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fatalist means One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity; a person who believes in fatalism..
Common synonyms include fatalistic, determinist, predestinationist.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
....it is that, with every day, my love for you increases—though that would seem to be almost an impossibility. Why should I not become a fatalist? Remember how, on the third day that we ascended the Shlangenberg, I was moved to whisper in your ear: 'Say but the word, and I will leap into the abyss.' Had you said it, I should have leapt. Do you not believe me?"
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