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(fətælɪti)
Word forms: plural fatalities
1. countable noun
A fatality is a death caused by an accident or by violence.
[formal]
Drunk driving fatalities have declined more than 10 percent over the past 10 years.
2. uncountable noun
Fatality is the feeling or belief that human beings cannot influence or control events.
...with a feeling of fatality.
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fatality in British English

(fəˈtælɪtɪ)
nounWord forms: plural -ties
1. 
an accident or disaster resulting in death
2. 
a person killed in an accident or disaster
3. 
the power of causing death or disaster; deadliness
4. 
the quality or condition of being fated
5. 
something caused or dictated by fate

fatality in American English

(feɪˈtæləti; fəˈtæləti)
nounWord forms: plural faˈtalities
1. 
fate or necessity; subjection to fate
2. 
something caused by fate
3. 
a strong likelihood of ending in disaster
4. 
a fatal quality; deadly effect; deadliness
the fatality of any specified disease
5. 
a death caused by a disaster, as in an accident, war, etc.
Word origin
Fr fatalité < LL fatalitas < L fatalis, fatal

Examples of 'fatality' in a sentence
fatality

An investigation into the cause of this fatality is under way.
The Sun (2017)
As a result of the significant head injuries and other injuries, the motorcyclist suffered a fatality.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It was a minor accident with few fatalities.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The first military fatality cannot be a surprise.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
There can be no such guarantees against injury or fatality.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Heart attacks resulting from coronary artery disease are the commonest cause of fatality in many strenuous sports.
Shreeve, Dr Caroline M Lower Your Blood Pressure in 4 Easy Stages (1989)
It has made a significant contribution to reducing road accident fatalities and continues to do so.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
There have been around five or six fatalities on this road in the past two or three years.
The Sun (2009)
It was more by luck than judgment that this did not result in a serious injury or fatality.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
How easily this situation could have become an accident with fatalities and how lucky we were to have avoided it.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
In that time the brigade suffered 33 fatalities.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
His country ranks ninth in the world in traffic fatalities despite having only 9.2 million vehicles.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The plant has spawned human fatalities and engendered the strange fauna and flora found on the eerie headland where the derelict buildings remain.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
And there are some which are doubly thankful, having suffered no fatalities in either world war.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Higher petrol prices lead to more traffic fatalities, because drivers turn to motorbikes.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It was the first military fatality since the end of the civil war in May.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The new study found annual screening cut the number of fatalities from the disease by 20 per cent.
The Sun (2015)
There are no confirmed British fatalities.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
And the risks of getting it wrong are very real: barely a year goes by without a fatality or serious injury along the route.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Eighty per cent of British fatalities in Afghanistan have been caused by explosive devices.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Cancer caused 28 per cent of fatalities and circulatory diseases 26 per cent.
The Sun (2016)
Despite the perceived threat from sharks along the Australian coast, there have only been about sixty human fatalities in the past half century.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
This was just one of five equine fatalities in the last ten days to afflict the Hobbs yard, which is otherwise in auspicious form.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)

In other languages
fatality

British English: fatality NOUN
A fatality is a death caused by an accident or by violence.
Yesterday's fatality is the 36th this year.
  • American English: fatality
  • Brazilian Portuguese: vítima
  • Chinese: > 死亡事故或暴力导致的
  • European Spanish: víctima mortal
  • French: victime
  • German: Todesfall
  • Italian: vittima
  • Japanese: >死事故・暴力による
  • Korean: > 사망사고로 인한
  • European Portuguese: vítima
  • Latin American Spanish: víctima mortal

Chinese translation of 'fatality'

fatality

(fəˈtælɪtɪ)

n (c)

  1. (= death, victim) 死亡 (sǐwáng)
1 (noun) 
Definition
a death caused by an accident or disaster
the first fatality since the ceasefire began
Synonyms
casualty
Troops fired on the demonstrators, causing many casualties.
death
There had been a death in the family.
loss
Surviving the loss of a loved one has made me feel old.
victim
an organization representing victims of the accident
2 (noun) 
a significantly reduced number of fatalities
Synonyms
fatal accident
disaster
mortality
the nation's infant mortality rate

Additional synonyms

in the sense of death
Definition
an instance of this
There had been a death in the family.
Synonyms
dying,
demise (euphemistic),
bereavement,
end,
passing,
release,
loss,
departure,
curtains (informal),
cessation,
expiration,
decease,
quietus
in the sense of loss
Surviving the loss of a loved one has made me feel old.
Synonyms
death,
grief,
demise (euphemistic),
bereavement,
passing away,
decease (formal)
in the sense of mortality
Definition
the number of deaths in a given period
the nation's infant mortality rate
Synonyms
death,
dying,
fatality,
loss of life

Synonyms of 'fatality'

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