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fa⋅tal⋅i⋅ty

  [fey-tal-i-tee, fuh-]
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–noun, plural -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. the 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. a fixed, unalterably predetermined course of things; inevitability: to resign oneself to the fatality of life.
Origin:
1480–90; < LL fātālitās. See fatal, -ity
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fa·tal·i·ty   (fā-tāl'ĭ-tē, fə-)   
n.   pl. fa·tal·i·ties

    1. A death resulting from an accident or a disaster: highway fatalities.

    2. One that is killed as a result of such an occurrence: The driver was one of the fatalities.

  2. The ability to cause death or disaster.

  3. The quality of being determined by fate.

  4. A decree made by fate; destiny.

  5. The quality of being doomed to disaster.

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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: fa·tal·i·ty
Pronunciation: fA-'tal-&t-E, f&-
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -ties
1 : the quality or state of causing death or destruction : DEADLINESS fatality of adisease>
2 a : death resulting from a disaster fatalities> b : one who suffers such a death fatalities was a small child>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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fatality fa·tal·i·ty (fā-tāl'ĭ-tē, fə-)
n.

  1. A death resulting from an accident or a disaster.

  2. One that is killed as a result of such an occurrence.

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