Word to the Wise: Fatidic

By ETR

"Fatidic" (fuh-TID-ik) means prophetic. The word is derived from the Latin for "fate."

Example (as used by Kathleen Cambor in In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden): "With a fatidic clarity that comes only occasionally and only to the young, she understood that… this too was a sign, an omen."

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