fatality

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fatality

/feɪˈtælɪti/ US
[feɪ̯ˈtʰælɪɾi] US
/fə-/ US
/fəˈtælətɪ/ UK
/fəˈtælɪtɪ/ UK
/feɪ-/ UK

Rhymes with -ælɪti

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From French fatalité. equivalent to fatal + -ity. The video game move sense was popularized by the Mortal Kombat series.

noun fatalities

The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
Similar: inevitability, banker, cert, certainty, certitude, cinch, dead cert, fatality, racing certainty, sure thing, fair bet, good bet
Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate.
Similar: mortality
That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. Again the chance reference to the woman in white! Was there no possibility of speaking of Miss Fairlie and of me without raising the memory of Anne Catherick, and setting her between us like a fatality that it was hopeless to avoid?
Similar: destiny, doom, chance, destin, fatality, fate, foredoom, foreordination, fortune, kismet, lot, orlay
Death.
Similar: demise, the big sleep, death, end, tomb, celestial transfer, decease, decomposition, defunction, dematerialization, dirt nap, doom
An accident that causes death. 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...
A person killed.
A move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent. 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.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: human death, destiny, fate, fatal, fatalism, incident, passing, accident, casualty, disaster, inevitability, victim, death, dead, mortal, mortality

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noun accident which caused death

日本語	死亡事故 shibōjiko

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@misc{fatality_2026,
  title = {fatality},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fatality},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}