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FATALITY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being able to cause death or fatal disastersplay

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 disasterplay

Example:

a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities

Synonyms:

fatality; human death

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

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)

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