What does fatality mean?
Definitions for fatality
feɪˈtæl ɪ ti, fə-fa·tal·i·ty
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Princeton's WordNet
fatality, human deathnoun
a death resulting from an accident or a disaster
"a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities"
fatalitynoun
the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters
Wiktionary
fatalitynoun
The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
fatalitynoun
The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortality.
fatalitynoun
A death.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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
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
Fatalitynoun
the state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control
Fatalitynoun
the state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility
Fatalitynoun
that which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event
Etymology: [L. fatalitas: cf. F. fatalit]
Wikidata
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
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of fatality in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of fatality in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of fatality in a Sentence
I do still think it's a potential cause for concern that we may still see a higher case fatality rate and higher hospitalizations for Covid in United States than the UK because of the differences in underlying immunity.
There is an urgent need for accelerated research and development for the Nipah virus, not only is the case fatality rate for this disease high ... there is a serious risk (it) could become a threat to global health security.
There is no confirmed cholera fatality at the hospital, we have sufficient stock of medicine and rehydration fluid to cater for any patient.
You can see what it did with the nursing home fatality rates. I mean, it's remarkable.
Sadly, we mourn another fatality in Orihuela.
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