fatality Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun a death resulting from an accident or a disaster
human death.
- a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities
noun the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters

L. fatalitas: cf. F. fatalité

plural Fatalities

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.
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.
That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. Dryden.