FATALITY

fatality

(noun) the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters

fatality, human death

(noun) a death resulting from an accident or a disaster; “a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

fatality (plural fatalities)

The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.

Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate.

That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.

Death.

An accident that causes death.

A person killed.

(video games) A move where one character kills another.

Synonyms

• (state proceeding from destiny): inevitability

• (tendency to death, destruction or danger): mortality

Source: Wiktionary

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Fa*tal"i*ty, n.;pl. Fatalities. Etym: [L. fatalitas: cf. F. fatalité]

1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South.

2. The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility. The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality. Ser T. Browne. By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting. Eikon Basilike.

3. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. Dryden.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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