Choice vs. Fate — What's the Difference?

A choice is the range of different things from which you can choose. The arrival at a choice may incorporate motivators and models.

The supposed force, principle, or power that predetermines events

An act of choosing between two or more possibilities

The inevitable events predestined by this force

(especially of food) of very good quality

A final result or consequence; an outcome

(of words or language) rude and abusive

An unfavorable outcome in life; doom or death

The act of choosing; selection

Fates Greek & Roman Mythology The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, who control human destiny. Used with the.

The power, right, or liberty to choose; option

The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.

An alternative

The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.

One that is chosen

An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.

A number or variety from which to choose

Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.

The right to terminate a pregnancy by induced abortion.

(mythology) Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).

Of very fine quality

(biochemistry) The products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere.

Selected with care; well-chosen

(embryology) The mature endpoint of a region, group of cells or individual cell in an embryo, including all changes leading to that mature endpoint

Expressive of intense disapproval

(transitive) To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.

Of or relating to the USDA grade of beef with more marbling than select cuts and less marbling than prime cuts.

A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.

An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.

Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.

(uncountable) The power to choose.

The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him.

One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.

The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcæwho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.

Anything that can be chosen.

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

The best or most preferable part.

The ultimate agency that predetermines the course of events (often personified as a woman);

(obsolete) Care and judgement in selecting; discrimination, selectiveness.

Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you);

(obsolete) A sufficient number to choose among.

Decree or designate beforehand;

(set theory) axiom of choice.

Especially good or preferred.

(obsolete) Careful in choosing; discriminating.

Cool; excellent.

Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.

The power or opportunity of choosing; option.

Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination.

A sufficient number to choose among.

The thing or person chosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection.

The best part; that which is preferable.

Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable.

Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; - used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money.

Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen.

The person or thing chosen or selected;

The act of choosing or selecting;

One of a number of things from which only one can be chosen;

Of superior grade;

Appealing to refined taste;