kismet

Examples

• All

• It was kismet.

  Cannonball Run II (1984)

• And I saw you here, and I thought: Kismet!

  Fiction book (1994)

• I mean, I believe in kismet.

  Isolation (2015)

• Yeah, like it was kismet.

  Fiction book (1993)

• It had to have been kismet.

  Celebrity Crush (2019)

• Well, that's what they call kismet.

  Lost in the Sun (2015)

• I don't know what kind of crazy kismet made our worlds collide.

  Hotel Mumbai (2019)

• I kind of like to think it might be kismet playing its part, fate to you and me, the kind of thing the Egyptians are so fond of believing in.

  Fiction book (2000)

• She believed that meeting her old friend was a moment of kismet in her life.

• Many cultures speak about kismet as the force that guides our destinies.

Synonyms

F

fatalism

vskismet

7 8.4

Believing events are already decided and cannot be changed by people

shares the same inevitability but is tied to a distinct religious framing

P

predestination

vskismet

• Formal

4 9.9

The belief that God already decides what happens in people's lives

frames that idea within a specific cultural and religious understanding

P

predestiny

vskismet

1 9.9

Belief that all things that happen are decided in advance by fate or a higher power

is the same belief presented within a particular religious tradition

P

predestinarianism

vskismet

• Formal

9.9

A belief that God decides everything, especially who will be saved

applies the predetermined event idea more broadly across life events

Surface Forms

Etymology