Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Fatalism \Fa"tal*ism\, n. [Cf. F. fatalisme.]
   The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that
   they take place by inevitable necessity.

Source : WordNet®

fatalism
     n : a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are
         predetermined in advance for all time and human beings
         are powerless to change them