fatality

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: fa=tal=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

fatality, n. [L. fatalitas: cf. F. fatalité].

•  The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.  [1913 Webster]

  "The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events."  [1913 Webster]
•  The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility.  [1913 Webster]

  "The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality."  [1913 Webster]

  "By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting."  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

fatality, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a an occurrence of death by accident or in war etc. b a person killed in this way.
2 a fatal influence.
3 a predestined liability to disaster.
4 subjection to or the supremacy of fate.

Etymology

F fatalit{eacute} or LL fatalitas f. L fatalis FATAL

THESAURUS

fatality

Friday, Friday the thirteenth, appointed lot, astral influences, astrology, balefulness, banefulness, bodefulness, book of fate, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, constellation, cup, deadliness, death, destination, destiny, dies funestis, direness, disaster, doom, doomfulness, end, fatal accident, fate, fatefulness, foredoom, fortune, future, ides of March, ill-fatedness, ill-omenedness, inauspiciousness, inevitability, kismet, lethality, lot, malignance, malignancy, malignity, meaning, moira, mortality, ominousness, perniciousness, planets, portent, portentousness, portion, presagefulness, significance, sinisterness, stars, suggestiveness, unfavorableness, unfortunateness, unluckiness, unlucky day, unpropitiousness, violent death, virulence, weird, wheel of fortune, will of Heaven

ROGET THESAURUS

fatality

Necessity

N necessity, involuntariness, instinct, blind impulse, inborn proclivity, innate proclivity, native tendency, natural tendency, natural impulse, predetermination, necessity, necessitation, obligation, compulsion, subjection, stern necessity, hard necessity, dire necessity, imperious necessity, inexorable necessity, iron necessity, adverse necessity, fate, what must be, destiny, destination, fatality, fate, kismet, doom, foredoom, election, predestination, preordination, foreordination, lot fortune, fatalism, inevitableness, spell, star, stars, planet, planets, astral influence, sky, Fates, Parcae, Sisters three, book of fate, God's will, will of Heaven, wheel of Fortune, Ides of March, Hobson's choice, last shift, last resort, dernier ressort, pis aller, necessaries, necessarian, necessitarian, fatalist, automaton, necessary, needful, fated, destined, elect, spellbound compulsory, uncontrollable, inevitable, unavoidable, irresistible, irrevocable, inexorable, avoidless, resistless, involuntary, instinctive, automatic, blind, mechanical, unconscious, unwitting, unthinking, unintentional, impulsive, necessarily, of necessity, of course, ex necessitate rei, needs must, perforce, nolens volens, will he nil he, willy nilly, bon gre mal gre, willing or unwilling, coute que coute, faute de mieux, by stress of, if need be, it cannot be helped, there is no help for, there is no helping it, it will be, it must be, it needs to be, it must be so, it will have its way, the die is cast, jacta est alea, che sara sara, it is written, one's days are numbered, one's fate is sealed, Fata obstant, diis aliter visum, actum me invito factus, non est meus actus, aujord'hui roi demain rien, quisque suos patimur manes, The moving finger writes and having writ moves on, Nor all thy piety nor wit shall draw it back to ca.