Fatality

/feɪˈtælɪti/ · noun

Meaning

The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. [from 17th c.].

Definitions by Sense

1. The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. [from 17th c.]
2. Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate. [from 17th c.]
3. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. [from 18th c.]
4. Death.
5. An accident that causes death. [from 19th c.]
6. A person killed.
7. (video games) A move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent.

Example Sentences

What can I say, or think of this most terrible of fatalities?

the whole thing felt like being in a near traffic fatality avoided by inches and later not being able to think of the whole thing lest you begin shaking...

My first enchantment with computers came when I was about six years old, in Montreal in the early nineties, playing Mortal Kombat with my oldest brother. He told me about some “fatalities”—gruesome, witty ways of killing your opponent.

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