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noun, plural fa·tal·i·ties.
1.
a disaster resulting in death.
2.
a death resulting from such an occurrence: a rise in highway fatalities.
3.
the quality of causing death or disaster; a fatal influence; deadliness.
4.
predetermined liability to disaster, misfortune, etc.: a fatality for saying the wrong thing.
5.
EXPANDthe quality of being predetermined by or subject to fate: There is a fatality in human affairs that leads to destruction.
6.
the fate or destiny of a person or thing: Death is the ultimate fatality of all human beings.
7.
COLLAPSEa fixed, unalterably predetermined course of things; inevitability: to resign oneself to the fatality of life.
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fatality
late 15c., "quality of causing death," from Fr. fatalité, from L.L. fatalitatem, from fatalis (see fatal). Senses in 16c.-17c. included "determined by fate" and "a destiny." Meaning "an occurrence resulting in widespread death" is from 1840. Related: Fatalities.
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fatality fa·tal·i·ty (fā-tāl'ĭ-tē, fə-)
n.
A death resulting from an accident or a disaster.
One that is killed as a result of such an occurrence.
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