predetermination

1. 1.

   (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind)

   Synonymspredestinationforeordinationpreordination

   Broadertheological doctrine

   Narrowerelection

   theology

2. 2.

   a mental determination or resolve in advance; an antecedent intention to do something

   “he entered the argument with a predetermination to prove me wrong”

   Broaderdecision
3. 3.

   the act of determining or ordaining in advance what is to take place

   Broaderdetermination

Other forms of predetermination

plural

predeterminations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about predetermination

What does predetermination mean?

predetermination means "(theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in predetermination?

predetermination has 7 syllables: pre-de-ter-mi-na-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for predetermination?

Close synonyms include predestination, foreordination, preordination. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is predetermination a common word?

predetermination is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.