Fatality

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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              The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable
              course of events.                     --South.
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     2. The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or
        danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility.
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              The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it
              the most considerable fatality.       --Ser T.
                                                    Browne.
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              By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting.
                                                    --Eikon
                                                    Basilike.
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     3. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal
        event. --Dryden.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fatality
       n 1: a death resulting from an accident or a disaster; "a
            decrease in the number of automobile fatalities" [syn: {human
            death}]
       2: the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  66 Moby Thesaurus words for "fatality":
     Friday, Friday the thirteenth, 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, 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