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Definition of destiny : 1. That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.
2. The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; a resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.

Synonyms:

indispensability, muckle, band, dowry, constituent, dowery, fate, draw, component part, happenstance, helping, slew, compulsion, hatful, chance, necessity, circle, parcel, urgency, share, plenty, condition, great deal, mess, serving, emergency, tidy sum, spate, providence, deal, certainty, luck, certain, decree, want, sight, good deal, finality, extremity, sine qua non, passel, ordinance, wad, end, pile, dower, conclusion, mass, caboodle, stack, mountain, mint, part, hazard, peck, indispensableness, pot, portion, need, predestination, batch, mickle, exigency, fortune, kismet, requirement, Weird Sisters, requisite, raft, bunch, unavoidableness, lot, flock, circumstances, heap, essential, doom, set, quite a little, fatality, percentage, component

future, eventuality, hereafter, to-be, tomorrow, by-and-by

Usage examples:

• As for myself, I only pity my cruel destiny. - "The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons", Jacques Casanova de Seingalt.
• They imagined that this external world, the earth, the planets, the phenomena of nature, bore some relation to the emotions and destiny of the soul. - "Emerson and Other Essays", John Jay Chapman.
• More, even, than the rest of us she didn't choose her destiny. - "Alexander's Bridge and The Barrel Organ", Willa Cather and Alfred Noyes.