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FATALITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("fatality" is a kind of...):
deadliness; lethality (the quality of being deadly)
Derivation:
fatal (bringing death)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A death resulting from an accident or a disaster
Example:
a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities
Synonyms:
fatality; human death
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fatality" is a kind of...):
death; decease; expiry (the event of dying or departure from life)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fatality"):
killing; violent death (an event that causes someone to die)
casualty; fatal accident (an accident that causes someone to die)