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What is the difference between prophetic and fatidic?

prophetic | fatidic |

As adjectives the difference between prophetic and fatidic

is that prophetic is of, or relating to a prophecy or a prophet while fatidic is of or pertaining to prophecy; prophetic.

prophetic

English

Alternative forms

* prophetical * prophetick (obsolete)

Adjective

(-)
  • of, or relating to a prophecy or a prophet
  • predicted, as by a prophecy
  • * Dryden
    • And fears are oft prophetic of the event.

    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 [...].