What does fatality mean?

Definitions for fatality
feɪˈtæl ɪ ti, fə-fa·tal·i·ty

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word fatality.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. fatality, human deathnoun

    a death resulting from an accident or a disaster

    "a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities"

  2. fatalitynoun

    the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters

Wiktionary

  1. fatalitynoun

    The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.

  2. fatalitynoun

    The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortality.

  3. fatalitynoun

    A death.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Fatalitynoun

    Etymology: fatalité, French, from fatal.

    The stoicks held a fatality, and a fixed unalterable course of events; but then they held also, that they fell out by a necessity emergent from and inherent in the things themselves, which God himself could not alter. Robert South, Sermons.

    By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting to be drawn into the stream of the present vogue. Charles I .

    All the father’s precaution could not secure the son from the fatality of dying by a lion. Roger L'Estrange, Fables.

    Seven times seven, or forty-nine, nine times nine, or eighty-one, and seven times nine, or the years sixty-three, is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality. Bro.

ChatGPT

  1. fatality

    Fatality refers to the occurrence of death resulting from a disaster, accident, illness, or other adverse situations. It is often used to measure the severity of such occurrences, indicating the number or rate of deaths involved.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Fatalitynoun

    the state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control

  2. Fatalitynoun

    the state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility

  3. Fatalitynoun

    that which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event

  4. Etymology: [L. fatalitas: cf. F. fatalit]

Wikidata

  1. Fatality

    Fatality is a fictional character, a former supervillain in the DC Comics universe. She was created by Ron Marz and first appeared in Green Lantern vol 3 #83 in February 1997.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fatality in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fatality in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of fatality in a Sentence

  1. Siddharth Astir:

    Fatality is doing the right things at the wrong time!!!!

  2. David Fisman:

    As the denominator is growing in terms of case numbers, and case fatality goes down and down... you start to realize it's everywhere.

  3. John Pucher:

    Cycling in the U.S. is very dangerous indeed when compared to the Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany, all of which have dramatically lower cyclist injury and fatality rates, cycling safety is a very serious problem that needs to be taken more seriously by everyone, including cyclists themselves.

  4. Emily Brooke:

    It tackles the most common cause of fatality, which is the blind spot. According to Emily Brooke, 79 percent of bicycles involved in crashes are traveling straight ahead when a vehicle turns into them. Emily Brooke said Emily Brooke chose the 20-foot distance because it's half the length of a bus, and Emily Brooke wanted the laser image to be green because the human eye is most sensitive to green light. TINY, LENS-FREE CAMERA COULD HIDE IN CLOTHES, GLASSES Drivers just see it and all they need to do is not turn, not react, not turn into the cyclist or not pull out, people see it and go, ‘ What is that ? ’ And that's perfect, as long as they don't make that turn, which can be potentially fatal …. Emily Brooke said The Laserlight alerts not only drivers, but pedestrians, too, about oncoming bikes. One of the most obvious cases.

  5. Hiroshi Osada:

    If Japan is serious about improving the management and quality of Japanese firms, the related agencies have to be more committed to prevent accidents even before there's been a fatality. That should be their role.

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Translations for fatality

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  • участ, фаталност, предопределеност, съдбаBulgarian
  • fatalidadSpanish
  • kuolonkolari, kohtalo, itsetuhoisuus, [[kuolemaan]] [[johtanut]] [[onnettomuus]], kuolemantapausFinnish
  • 死亡事故Japanese
  • dödsolyckaSwedish
  • இறப்புTamil

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