Fa-tăl'i-ty, n.
n. [Lat. fatalitas, Fr. fatalité, Sp. fatalidad, It. fatalità.]
Sense 1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South.
Sense 2. The state of being fatal, or productive of death; tendency to destruction or danger; mortality.
The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality. Browne.
Sense 3. That which is decreed by fate. Dryden.