Fa-tăl'i-ty, n.

noun

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.