About The Word Fatality

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Fatality

Fatality Definition And Meaning |
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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 Related Terms | Find terms related to Fatality: appointed lot | astral influences | astrology | balefulness | banefulness | bodefulness | book of fate | calamity | casualty | cataclysm | catastrophe | constellation | cup | deadliness | death | destination | destiny | dies funestis | direness | disaster | doom | doomfulness | end | fatal accident | fate | fatefulness | foredoom | fortune | Friday | Friday the thirteenth | future | ides of March | ill-fatedness | ill-omenedness | inauspiciousness | inevitability | kismet | lethality | lot | malignance | malignancy | malignity | meaning | moira | mortality | ominousness | perniciousness | planets | portent | portentousness | portion | presagefulness | significance | sinisterness | stars | suggestiveness | unfavorableness | unfortunateness | unluckiness | unlucky day | unpropitiousness | violent death | virulence | weird | wheel of fortune | will of Heaven 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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