FATALITY


Meaning of FATALITY in English

/fay tal"i tee, feuh-/ , n. , pl. fatalities .

1. a disaster resulting in death.

2. a death resulting from such an occurrence: a rise in highway fatalities.

3. the quality of causing death or disaster; a fatal influence; deadliness.

4. predetermined liability to disaster, misfortune, etc.: a fatality for saying the wrong thing.

5. the quality of being predetermined by or subject to fate: There is a fatality in human affairs that leads to destruction.

6. the fate or destiny of a person or thing: Death is the ultimate fatality of all human beings.

7. a fixed, unalterably predetermined course of things; inevitability: to resign oneself to the fatality of life.

[ 1480-90; fatalitas. See FATAL, -ITY ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .