<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a disaster resulting in death.</li><li>a death resulting from such an occurrence: a rise in highway fatalities.</li><li>the quality of causing death or disaster; a fatal influence; deadliness.</li><li>predetermined liability to disaster, misfortune, etc.: a fatality for saying the wrong thing.</li><li>the quality of being predetermined by or subject to fate: There is a fatality in human affairs that leads to destruction.</li><li>the fate or destiny of a person or thing: Death is the ultimate fatality of all human beings.</li><li>a fixed, unalterably predetermined course of things; inevitability: to resign oneself to the fatality of life.</li></ul>