[feɪˈtalɪti], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an occurrence of death by accident, in war, or from disease
(e.g: 80 per cent of pedestrian fatalities occur in built-up areas)

- helplessness in the face of fate
(e.g: a sense of fatality gripped her)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 15th century (denoting the quality of causing death or disaster): from French fatalité or late Latin fatalitas, from Latin fatalis ‘decreed by fate’, from fatum (see fate). fatality dates from the mid 19th century