fatality
noun
[ fəˈtalɪti ]
• an occurrence of death by accident, in war, or from disease.
• "80 per cent of pedestrian fatalities occur in built-up areas"
Similar:
death,
casualty,
mortality,
victim,
loss,
dead person,
dead,
fatal accident,
tragedy,
disaster,
catastrophe,
calamity,
• helplessness in the face of fate.
• "a sense of fatality gripped her"
Origin:
late 15th century (denoting the quality of causing death or disaster): from French fatalité or late Latin fatalitas, from Latin fatalis ‘decreed by fate’, from fatum (see fate). fatality (sense 1) dates from the mid 19th century.
