destiny

Plural: destinies

Noun

• The predetermined course of events; fate.
• an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
• the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman)
  • "we are helpless in the face of destiny"
• your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
• That to which any person or thing is destined; a predetermined state; a condition predestined by the Divine or by human will.
• That which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
• One's eventual fate (not necessarily inevitable or predestined).
• The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; an irresistible power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.

Examples

• Dara doesn't believe in using dating apps - she insists that destiny will find her other half.
• Death is the destiny of all mortal men.
• It felt like DESTINY that he drew the perfect tiles for a bingo on his final turn.

Synonyms

circumstances, fate, fortune, lot, luck, portion, chance, destin, destiny, doom, fatality, foredoom, foreordination, kismet, orlay, predestination, predestiny, preordination, qadar, weird, wyrd

Related Words

destinate, destination, destine, doom