单词 | fatality |
释义 | fatality /fay tal"i tee, feuh-/, n. , pl. fatalities. 1. a disaster resulting in death. 2. a death resulting from such an occurrence: a rise in highway fatalities. 3. the quality of causing death or disaster; a fatal influence; deadliness. 4. predetermined liability to disaster, misfortune, etc.: a fatality for saying the wrong thing. 5. the quality of being predetermined by or subject to fate: There is a fatality in human affairs that leads to destruction. 6. the fate or destiny of a person or thing: Death is the ultimate fatality of all human beings. 7. a fixed, unalterably predetermined course of things; inevitability: to resign oneself to the fatality of life. [1480-90; < LL fatalitas. See FATAL, -ITY] |
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