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fatality
[ fey-tal-i-tee, fuh- ]
noun
- a disaster resulting in death.
- a death resulting from such an occurrence:
a rise in highway fatalities.
- the quality of causing death or disaster; a fatal influence; deadliness.
- predetermined liability to disaster, misfortune, etc.:
a fatality for saying the wrong thing.
- the quality of being predetermined by or subject to fate:
There is a fatality in human affairs that leads to destruction.
- the fate or destiny of a person or thing:
Death is the ultimate fatality of all human beings.
- a fixed, unalterably predetermined course of things; inevitability:
to resign oneself to the fatality of life.
fatality
/ fəˈtælɪtɪ /
noun
- an accident or disaster resulting in death
- a person killed in an accident or disaster
- the power of causing death or disaster; deadliness
- the quality or condition of being fated
- something caused or dictated by fate
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Other Words From
- nonfa·tali·ty noun plural nonfatalities
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
New York and New Jersey in particular saw hundreds of deaths a day in April, quickly contributing to the country’s total number of fatalities.
New York and New Jersey in particular recorded hundreds of deaths a day in April, quickly contributing to the country’s total number of fatalities.
If we compare the necessary spread to achieve herd immunity with the fatality rate, we get a wide range of possible death tolls from the virus.
The country’s chief medical officers said Sunday that the Covid-19 fatality rate among those ages 5 to 14 is lower than most seasonal flu infections.
Just this past week, California, Florida and Texas, along with a handful of other states, saw record spikes in fatalities.
Just as Obama was heading back to his house that night, a 14-year-old named Kevin Diaz became the latest Chicago gun fatality.
The Good Wife introduced its potentially fatal fatality into a world already in flux.
They're neither rising nor falling, and the highest fatality shooting took place while the assault-weapons ban was in place.
The gun-fatality rate for blacks far exceeds that for whites.
A 26-year-old man was the first fatality of the riots, found shot in his car.
Many, however, are not aware of the fatality attending its use by the brute creation.
By a strange fatality, they were generally purblind, and always shyed most fearfully when an Opposition coach approached them.
She had fallen in love; fallen with the fatality of the Lemprieres, and with the fine precipitate sweep of her own genius.
You would not believe me: you went this morning to St. Catherine's, and by a fatality the prince was there and saw you.'
Misfortune, Fatality, had willed that a drop of water thicker than the surrounding medium should pass through one of the mollusks.
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