fatality
🇺🇸 /fəˈtælɪtiː/
📖 Definitions
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noun
A death resulting from an accident, disaster, disease, or violent event.; The quality or state of being fatal; the power to cause death or destruction.; The quality of being fated or predetermined; inevitability, especially of an unfortunate outcome.
🔗 Details
Word forms
countable
Plural: fatalities
Collocations
fatality rateroad fatalitytraffic fatalityzero fatalitiessuffer fatalitiesfatality count
Derivatives
fatalfatallyfatalismfatalistfatalistic
Synonyms
deathcasualtyloss of lifedeceasemortality
Antonyms
survival
Commonly confused
casualty
EN: 'Casualty' can refer to someone killed or injured, while 'fatality' specifically means a death.
mortality
EN: 'Mortality' refers to the general state of being subject to death or a death rate, while 'fatality' refers to an individual instance of death.
Spelling tips
EN: Remember that 'fatality' has only one 'l' (from 'fatal' + '-ity'). Do not double the 'l' as in 'fatally'.
💬 Examples
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The highway accident resulted in three fatalities.
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The fatality of the virus was much higher than initially estimated.
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There was a sense of fatality about the decision, as if the outcome had been sealed long ago.