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   Fa·tal·i·ty

   /fāˈtalədē/

   

   noun

   • 1. an occurrence of death by accident, in war, or from disease: "shooting was heard and there were fatalities" Similar deathcasualtymortalityvictimlossdead persondeadfatal accidenttragedydisastercatastrophecalamity
   • ▪ a person killed by accident, war, or disease: "news reports said one of the fatalities was an eight-year-old boy"
   • 2. helplessness in the face of fate: "the plot needs a darker sense of fatality to cover its absurdities"

   Word Origin late 15th century (denoting the quality of causing death or disaster): from French fatalité or late Latin fatalitas, from Latin fatalis ‘decreed by fate’, from fatum (see fate). fatality (sense 1) dates from the mid 19th century.

   Scrabble Points: 14

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