Noun: destiny des-tu-nee
- An event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
"She believed it was her destiny to become a great artist";
- fate, kismet
- The ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events
"we are helpless in the face of destiny";
- fate
- 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