fatality

/feɪˈtæləti/
noun
  1. A death caused by an accident, disaster, or violence.
    • The car crash resulted in three fatalities and several injuries.
    • The disease has a high fatality rate among older patients.
    • Officials reported no fatalities from the earthquake, though many buildings were damaged.
  2. The quality or state of being determined by fate; inevitability.
    • There was a sense of fatality in the way the tragedy unfolded.
    • She felt a strange fatality about their meeting, as if it was meant to happen.
    • The ancient Greeks often wrote about the fatality of destiny in their plays.
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