'Fatality' definitions:
Definition of 'fatality'
(from WordNet)
noun
A death resulting from an accident or a disaster; "a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities" [syn: fatality, human death]
noun
The quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters
Definition of 'Fatality'
From: GCIDE
- Fatality \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. [1913 Webster]
- The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility. [1913 Webster]
- The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality. --Ser T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting. --Eikon Basilike. [1913 Webster]
- 3. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fatality'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- appointed lot,
- astral influences,
- astrology,
- balefulness,
- banefulness,
- bodefulness,
- book of fate,
- calamity,
- casualty,
- cataclysm,
- catastrophe,
- constellation,
- cup,
- deadliness,
- death,
- destination,
- destiny,
- dies funestis,
- direness,
- disaster,
- doom,
- doomfulness,
- end,
- fatal accident,
- fate,
- fatefulness,
- foredoom,
- fortune,
- Friday,
- Friday the thirteenth,
- future,
- ides of March,
- ill-fatedness,
- ill-omenedness,
- inauspiciousness,
- inevitability,
- kismet,
- lethality,
- lot,
- malignance,
- malignancy,
- malignity,
- meaning,
- moira,
- mortality,
- ominousness,
- perniciousness,
- planets,
- portent,
- portentousness,
- portion,
- presagefulness,
- significance,
- sinisterness,
- stars,
- suggestiveness,
- unfavorableness,
- unfortunateness,
- unluckiness,
- unlucky day,
- unpropitiousness,
- violent death,
- virulence,
- weird,
- wheel of fortune,
- will of Heaven