Our Terms: f-a-t-i-d-i-c, fatidic

fatidic \fuh-TID-ik\, adjective:
Of, relating to, or characterized by prophecy; prophetic.

Throughout his very considerable body of work, there is an obsession with time, with dates, with temporal coincidences, with the fatidic power of numbers over our birth and death.
-- James Kirkup, "Obituary: Ernst Junger", Independent, February 18, 1998

With a fatidic clarity that comes only occasionally and only to the young, she understood that . . . this too was a sign, an omen.
-- Kathleen Cambor, In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden

Source: dictionary.com

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