fatality

Meaning

Noun

• The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
• Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate.
• That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
• Death.
• An accident that causes death.
• A person killed.
• A move where one character kills another.

Related

Similar words

• inevitability
• mortality

Origin

• From French fatalité. equivalent to fatal + -ity.