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Definition of Fatality
1. Noun. A death resulting from an accident or a disaster. "A decrease in the number of automobile fatalities"
Generic synonyms: Death, Decease, Expiry
Specialized synonyms: Killing, Violent Death, Casualty, Fatal Accident
2. Noun. The quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters.
Definition of Fatality
1. n. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
Definition of Fatality
1. Noun. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. ¹
2. Noun. The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortality. ¹
3. Noun. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. ¹
4. Noun. A death. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fatality
1. a death resulting from an unexpected occurrence [n -TIES]
Medical Definition of Fatality
1. 1. A condition, disease, or disaster ending in death. 2. An individual instance of death. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fatality
Literary usage of Fatality
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transportation Expressions (1996) by Richard Feldman (1998)
"(FAA4) Fatal Accident: See also fatality. Fatal Accident: 1 ) A motor vehicle
traffic accident resulting in one or more fatal injuries. ..."
2. Ageing and Transport: Mobility Needs and Safety Issues by Oecd (2001)
"This is most evident when using casualty or fatality rates per journey as a ...
Figure 34 shows the fatality rate for injuries of all levels of severity per ..."
3. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1895)
"Of the 300 cases treated with serum with a total fatality of 26 per cent, ...
of not operated croup, 4 pure, fatality 0; 6 associated, fatality 16.6 per ..."
4. Sketches and Reminiscences of the Radical Club of Chestnut Street, Boston by Mary Elizabeth Fiske Sargent (1880)
"fatality. Bv JOHN WEISS. MR. WEISS treated in the most delightful manner the
subject of "fatality," which he illustrated by the Greek story of (Edipus. ..."
5. Personal Sketches of His Own Times by Jonah Barrington (1827)
"A singular fatality had attended the ... but, after all, I suspect the most
natural way of accounting for the fatality alluded to is, that the old gentlemen ..."
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