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Definition of Destiny

1. Noun. An event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future.

2. Noun. The ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman). "We are helpless in the face of destiny"

3. Noun. Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you). "Success that was her portion"

Definition of Destiny

1. n. That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.

Definition of Destiny

1. the fate or fortune to which one is destined [n -NIES]

Medical Definition of Destiny

1. Origin: OE. Destinee, destene, F. Destinee, 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. "Thither he Will come to know his destiny." (Shak) "No man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny." (Bryant) 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. "But who can turn the stream of destiny?" (Spenser) "Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny." (Longfellow) The Destinies, the three Parcae, or Fates; the supposed powers which preside over human life, and determine its circumstances and duration. "Marked by the Destinies to be avoided." (Shak) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Destiny

destains destalinisation destalinise destalinization destalinize desthiobiotin destination destinations destine destine

destined destines destinies destining destiny destiny destitute destitute destituted destituteness

destitutenesses destitutes destitute of(p) destituting destitution destitutions destress destrier destriers destrin

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