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Definition of fatality : 1. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
2. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
3. The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility.

Synonyms:

necessity, lethality, unavoidableness, compulsion, indispensability, want, exigency, requisite, indispensableness, urgency, poisonousness, requirement, accident, necrosis, emergency, human death, need, deadliness, destiny, dying, casualty, virulence, live, sine qua non, extremity, essential, fate, body

expiration, extinction, annihilation, death, end, cessation, ending, dissolution, decease, passing, demise, quietus, release, parting

Usage examples:

• Surely, surely, there is an absolute fatality in these things! - "Tales & Novels, Vol. IX [Contents: Harrington; Thoughts on Bores; Ormond]", Maria Edgeworth.
• A dim compassion came over him, and on a sudden the grey rain- clouds weighed upon him with a pall of melancholy, as though they were ominous of some inevitable fatality which threatened to crush her. - "Footsteps of Fate", Louis Couperus.
• She wanted to know the worst; and for her, as she saw in a flash, the worst of it was the core of fatality in what had happened. - "Sanctuary", Edith Wharton.