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Meaning of FATALITY

Pronunciation:  fey'talitee

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 Definition: 
  1. [n]  the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters
  2. [n]  a death resulting from an accident or a disaster; "a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities"
 
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 Synonyms: human death
 
 See Also: casualty, deadliness, death, decease, fatal accident, killing, lethality, violent death

 

 

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Fatality
It's been four years since Rose spent the weekend at Angelica's beautiful summer home and things went terribly wrong, but now that the police have reopened the murder case, Rose must relive that weekend all over again. Original.

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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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