Fate vs. Omen — What's the Difference?

The supposed force, principle, or power that predetermines events

An omen (also called portent or presage) is a phenomenon that is believed to foretell the future, often signifying the advent of change. It was commonly believed in ancient times, and still believed by some today, that omens bring divine messages from the gods.These omens include natural phenomena, for example an eclipse, abnormal births of animals (especially humans) and behaviour of the sacrificial lamb on its way to the slaughter.

The inevitable events predestined by this force

An event regarded as a portent of good or evil

A final result or consequence; an outcome

A phenomenon supposed to portend good or evil; a prophetic sign.

An unfavorable outcome in life; doom or death

Prognostication; portent

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

To be a prophetic sign of; portend.

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

Something which portends or is perceived to portend either a good or evil event or circumstance in the future, or which causes a foreboding; a portent or augury.

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

A thing of prophetic significance.

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

(transitive) To be an omen of.

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

(intransitive) To divine or predict from omens.

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

An occurrence supposed to portend, or show the character of, some future event; any indication or action regarded as a foreshowing; a foreboding; a presage; an augury.

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

To divine or to foreshow by signs or portents; to have omens or premonitions regarding; to predict; to augur; as, to omen ill of an enterprise.

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

A sign of something about to happen;

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

Indicate by signs;

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Decree or designate beforehand;