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Fatidic vs Fateful - What's the difference?

fatidic | fateful |

As adjectives the difference between fatidic and fateful

is that fatidic is of or pertaining to prophecy; prophetic while fateful is momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate.

fatidic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to prophecy; prophetic
  • * 1969 , (Vladimir Nabokov), (Ada or Ardor) , Penguin 2011, p. 112:
    • At that moment he felt quite proud of his stratagem. He was to recall it with a fatidic shiver seventeen years later [...].

    fateful

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate.
    • It started with that fateful trip, history was never the same afterwards.
  • Determined in advance by fate, fated.