fatality
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French fatalité
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ælɪti
Noun
fatality (plural fatalities)
- The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
- Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate.
- That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
- William Wilkie Collins
- What can I say, or think of this most terrible of fatalities?
- William Wilkie Collins
- Death.
- An accident that causes death.
- 2011, David Foster Wallace, The Pale King, page 13:
- the whole thing felt like being in a near traffic fatality avoided by inches and later not being able to think of the whole thing lest you begin shaking...
- A person killed.
- (video games) A move where one character kills another.
Synonyms
- (state proceeding from destiny): inevitability
- (tendency to death, destruction or danger): mortality
Translations
state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity
tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate
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that which is decreed by fate or which is fatal
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death
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accident which caused death
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