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determinism

About 2.39 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The doctrine that all actions are determined by the current state and immutable laws of the universe, with no possibility of choice.
  2. noun The property of having behavior determined only by initial state and input.

Similar words

determination predestination fatalism predetermination necessitarianism predeterminism inevitability foreordination inexorability predestiny

Often followed by

and is of in that which as to or

Word family

determinisms determinist deterministic deterministically determinists

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