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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024fa•tal•i•ty /feɪˈtælɪti/USA pronunciation n., pl. -ties. - a death caused by a disaster:[countable]highway fatalities.
- the quality of causing death or disaster;
deadliness:[uncountable]the fatality of cancer. - [uncountable] the state or quality of being predetermined by or subject to fate.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024fa•tal•i•ty (fā tal′i tē, fə-),USA pronunciation n., pl. -ties. - a disaster resulting in death.
- a death resulting from such an occurrence:a rise in highway fatalities.
- the quality of causing death or disaster;
a fatal influence;
deadliness. - predetermined liability to disaster, misfortune, etc.:a fatality for saying the wrong thing.
- the quality of being predetermined by or subject to fate:There is a fatality in human affairs that leads to destruction.
- the fate or destiny of a person or thing:Death is the ultimate fatality of all human beings.
- a fixed, unalterably predetermined course of things;
inevitability:to resign oneself to the fatality of life.
- Late Latin fātālitās. See fatal, -ity
- 1480–90
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: fatality /fəˈtælɪtɪ/ n ( pl -ties)- an accident or disaster resulting in death
- a person killed in an accident or disaster
- the power of causing death or disaster; deadliness
- the quality or condition of being fated
- something caused or dictated by fate
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