That to which any person or thing is destined; a predetermined state; a condition predestined by the Divine or by human will.
That which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
One's eventual fate (not necessarily inevitable or predestined).
The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; an irresistible power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.
The nature of God's existence which is outside of time; the nature of a soul's existence in a supposed timeless afterlife.
The condition in which all reality is experienced in the present, with the past contained only in memory and the future only in anticipation or speculation.