'Destiny' definitions:
Definition of 'destiny'
(from WordNet)
noun
An event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future [syn: destiny, fate]
noun
The ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman); "we are helpless in the face of destiny" [syn: destiny, fate]
noun
Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion" [syn: fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion]
Definition of 'Destiny'
From: GCIDE
- Destiny \Des"ti*ny\, n.; pl. Destinies. [OE. destinee, destene, F. destin['e]e, from destiner. See Destine.]
- 1. That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom. [1913 Webster]
- Thither he Will come to know his destiny. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- No man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny. --Bryant. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; a resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual. [1913 Webster]
- But who can turn the stream of destiny? --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
- The Destinies (Anc. Myth.), the three Parc[ae], or Fates; the supposed powers which preside over human life, and determine its circumstances and duration. [1913 Webster]
- Marked by the Destinies to be avoided. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'destiny'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a better place,
- accidentality,
- actuarial calculation,
- adventitiousness,
- afterlife,
- afterworld,
- allotment,
- allowance,
- apodosis,
- appointed lot,
- astral influences,
- astrology,
- big end,
- bigger half,
- bit,
- bite,
- book of fate,
- break,
- budget,
- casualness,
- catastrophe,
- ceasing,
- cessation,
- chance,
- chunk,
- circumstance,
- coda,
- commission,
- conclusion,
- constellation,
- consummation,
- contingent,
- crack of doom,
- culmination,
- cup,
- curtain,
- curtains,
- cut,
- deal,
- death,
- decease,
- denouement,
- design,
- destination,
- dies funestis,
- dividend,
- dole,
- doom,
- effect,
- end,
- end point,
- ending,
- envoi,
- epilogue,
- equal share,
- eschatology,
- eternal home,
- expiration,
- fatality,
- fate,
- final solution,
- final twitch,
- final words,
- finale,
- finality,
- finis,
- finish,
- flukiness,
- foredoom,
- fortuitousness,
- fortuity,
- fortune,
- Friday,
- Friday the thirteenth,
- future,
- future state,
- gamble,
- goal,
- good fortune,
- good luck,
- half,
- halver,
- hap,
- happenstance,
- happy chance,
- Heaven,
- heedless hap,
- helping,
- home,
- how they fall,
- ides of March,
- indeterminacy,
- indeterminateness,
- inevitability,
- intent,
- intention,
- interest,
- izzard,
- karma,
- kismet,
- last,
- last breath,
- last gasp,
- last things,
- last trumpet,
- last words,
- latter end,
- law of averages,
- life after death,
- life to come,
- lot,
- luck,
- measure,
- meed,
- mess,
- modicum,
- moiety,
- moira,
- next world,
- objective,
- omega,
- opportunity,
- otherworld,
- Paradise,
- part,
- payoff,
- percentage,
- period,
- peroration,
- piece,
- planets,
- portion,
- postexistence,
- principle of indeterminacy,
- probability,
- problematicness,
- proportion,
- quantum,
- quietus,
- quota,
- rake-off,
- random sample,
- ration,
- resolution,
- resting place,
- risk,
- run of luck,
- segment,
- serendipity,
- share,
- slice,
- small share,
- stake,
- stars,
- statistical probability,
- stock,
- stoppage,
- stopping place,
- swan song,
- term,
- terminal,
- termination,
- terminus,
- the beyond,
- the breaks,
- the good hereafter,
- the grave,
- the great beyond,
- the great hereafter,
- the hereafter,
- the unknown,
- theory of probability,
- uncertainty,
- uncertainty principle,
- unlucky day,
- weird,
- what bodes,
- what is fated,
- whatever comes,
- wheel of fortune,
- will of Heaven,
- windup,
- world to come,
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