| 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. |
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.