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Imprinting vs Fate - What's the difference?

imprinting | fate |

As a noun imprinting

is (psychology|ethology) any kind of phase-sensitive learning (learning occurring at a particular age or a particular life stage) that is rapid and apparently independent of the consequences of behavior.

As a verb imprinting

is .

As a proper noun fate is

any one of the fates.

imprinting

English

Noun

  • (psychology, ethology) Any kind of phase-sensitive learning (learning occurring at a particular age or a particular life stage) that is rapid and apparently independent of the consequences of behavior.

    • Derived terms

    * misimprinting * sexual imprinting

    Verb

    (head)

    • fate

    English

    (wikipedia fate)

    Noun

  • The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
  • *
    • Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate' which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that ' fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
  • The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
  • Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
  • (lb) (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).

    • Synonyms

    * destiny * doom * fortune * kismet * lot * necessity * orlay * predestination * wyrd

    Antonyms

    * choice * free will * freedom

    Derived terms

    * fatal * fatalism * fatality * tempt fate

    Related terms

    * amor fati ()

    See also

    * determinism * indeterminism

    Verb

    (fat)
  • To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
    • The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.
  • * 2011 , James Al-Shamma, Sarah Ruhl: A Critical Study of the Plays (page 119)
    • At the conclusion of this part, Eric, who plays Jesus and is now a soldier, captures Violet in the forest, fating her to a concentration camp.

    Usage notes

    * In some uses this may imply it causes the inevitable event.

    Anagrams

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