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1. An event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
   - fate, kismet
    
2. The ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events
   "we are helpless in the face of destiny";
   - fate
    
3. Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
   "whatever my destiny may be";
   - fortune, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion, circs [Brit, informal]

Derived forms: destinies

Type of: causal agency, causal agent, cause, condition, happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent

Part of: occult, supernatural

Encyclopedia: Destiny, or The Attraction of Affinities