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Webster 1913 Edition
Fatality
Fa-tal′i-ty
,Noun.
pl.
Fatalities
(#)
. [L.
fatalitas
: cf. F. fatalité
] 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Fatality
FATAL'ITY
, n.1.
A fixed unalterable course of things, independent of God or any controlling cause; an invincible necessity existing in things themselves; a doctrine of the Stoics.2.
Decree of fate.3.
Tendency to danger, or to some great or hazardous event.4.
Mortality.Definition 2024
fatality
fatality
English
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...
- 2011, David Foster Wallace, The Pale King, page 13:
- (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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death
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accident which caused death
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