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kismetic

kismetic adjective: of, like, or pertaining to kismet; fatiloquent; predestined; ineluctable.

Adjective

kismetic (not comparable)

  1. Of, like, or pertaining to kismet; fatiloquent; predestined; ineluctable.
    • The essay discusses how devotees perform rituals at the mazars of Waris Shah and Shah Latif out of a variety of purposes which may be categorised as pan- thic, dharmic and kismetic.2008, Catharina Raudvere & Leif Stenberg, Sufism Today: Heritage and Tradition in the Global Community,, page 156
    • The fourth, kismetic, dimension is a conceptual umbrella under which all unfortunate incidents are explained as fate or the work of the supernatural.
    • The kismetic dimension is of most importance in this research because the popular belief of …2004, Knut A. Jacobsen & P. Pratap Kumar, South Asians in the Diaspora: Histories and Religious Traditions, Brill Publishing, page 408

Origin of kismetic

From kismet + -ic.

Words formed from kismetic

Questions about kismetic

What does kismetic mean?
Kismetic means of, like, or pertaining to kismet; fatiloquent; predestined; ineluctable.
What part of speech is kismetic?
Kismetic is an adjective.

Words near kismetic in the dictionary

  1. kismat
  2. kismats
  3. kismeses
  4. kismesis
  5. kismet
  6. kismetic
  7. kismetically
  8. kismets
  9. kismutgar
  10. kismutgars
  11. Kisner

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