【Fate】 , 【destiny】 ,  【lot】 ,  【portion】 ,  【doom】  are comparable when they denote the state, condition, or end which is decreed for one by a higher power.

【Fate】 presupposes such a determining agent or agency as one of the ancient goddesses called Fates, the Supreme Being, or the law of necessity; the term usually suggests inevitability and, sometimes, immutability.

【Destiny】 may imply an irrevocable determination or appointment (as by the will of the gods or of God); even in this sense, however, it carries little or no suggestion of something to be feared; on the contrary, it may even imply a great or noble state or end.

【Destiny】 may also be applied to whatever one envisions as his end or goal, sometimes retaining a slight implication that it is, or has the inevitability of, the will of God.

【Lot】  and  【portion】  carry a strong implication of distribution in the decreeing of one′s 【fate】 .

【Lot】  stresses the action of blind chance or as if by determination through the casting of lots, and  【portion】 , the more or less fair apportioning of good and evil.

【Doom】 , more than any of these words, implies a final and usually an unhappy or calamitous award or 【fate】 .