fatality

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ælɪti

Noun

fatality (plural fatalities)

1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
2. The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortality.
3. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.

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4. A death.

Translations

proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity

• Bulgarian: съдба (bg) f (sǎdba), участ (bg) f (učast)

tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate

• Bulgarian: предопределеност (bg) f (predopredelenost), фаталност (bg) f (fatalnost)