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Fatality

Fatality Meaning & Definition
Fatality Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Fatality?

[n] the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters
[n] a death resulting from an accident or a disaster; "a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Fatality: human death

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See Also | casualty | deadliness | death | decease | fatal accident | killing | lethality | violent death

Fatality In Webster's Dictionary

\Fa*tal"i*ty\, n.;pl. {Fatalities}. [L. fatalitas: cf. F. fatalit['e]] 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.

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