the belief that people are not free to choose what they are like or how they behave, because these things are decided by their surroundings and other things over which they have no control
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NAmE//dɪˌtərməˈnɪstɪk//
adjectiveSee determinism in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: determinism