predetermination

predetermination
    n 1: (theology) being determined in advance; especially the
         doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has
         foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the
         final salvation of mankind) [syn: {predestination},
         {foreordination}, {preordination}, {predetermination}]
    2: a mental determination or resolve in advance; an antecedent
       intention to do something; "he entered the argument with a
       predetermination to prove me wrong"
    3: the act of determining or ordaining in advance what is to
       take place
    

Predetermination \Pre`de*ter`mi*na"tion\, n. [Cf. F.
   pr['e]d['e]termination.]
   The act of previous determination; a purpose formed
   beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will.
   --Hammond.
   [1913 Webster]
    

83 Moby Thesaurus words for "predetermination":
      absolute certainty, absoluteness, act of God, aforethought,
      assurance, assuredness, calculatedness, calculation,
      certain knowledge, certainness, certainty, certitude,
      dead certainty, definiteness, deliberateness, deliberation,
      determinacy, determinateness, express intention, expressness, fate,
      fatefulness, force majeure, forejudgment, forethought,
      indefeasibility, ineluctability, inerrability, inerrancy,
      inescapableness, inevasibleness, inevitability,
      inevitable accident, inevitableness, inexorability, infallibilism,
      infallibility, inflexibility, intentionality, irrevocability,
      necessity, nonambiguity, noncontingency, parti pris, positiveness,
      preapprehension, preconception, preconclusion, preconsideration,
      predecision, predeliberation, predestination, predilection,
      predisposition, prejudgment, prejudication, prejudice,
      premature judgment, premeditation, prenotion, prepossession,
      preresolution, presumption, presupposal, presupposition,
      presurmise, probatum, proved fact, relentlessness, sureness,
      surety, truth, unambiguity, unavoidable casualty, unavoidableness,
      uncontrollability, undeflectability, unequivocalness, univocity,
      unmistakableness, unpreventability, unyieldingness, vis major