fatality

English

From French fatalité. equivalent to fatal +‎ -ity.

(General American) IPA^(key): /feɪˈtælɪti/, [feɪ̯ˈtʰælɪɾi], /fə-/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fəˈtælətɪ/, /fəˈtælɪtɪ/, /feɪ-/
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Rhymes: -ælɪti

fatality (plural fatalities)

The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. [from 17th c.]
Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate. [from 17th c.]
That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. [from 18th c.]
- 1851, Wilkie Collins, The Twin Sisters
  What can I say, or think of this most terrible of fatalities?
Death.
An accident that causes death. [from 19th c.]
- 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 used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent.

state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity

tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate

Bulgarian: предопределеност (bg) f (predopredelenost), фаталност (bg) f (fatalnost)
Finnish: itsetuhoisuus (fi)

that which is decreed by fate or which is fatal

death

accident which caused death