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Deceased vs Fatality - What's the difference?

deceased | fatality |

As nouns the difference between deceased and fatality

is that deceased is a dead person while fatality is the state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.

As an adjective deceased

is no longer alive.

deceased

English

Adjective

(-)
  • No longer alive
  • * That parrot is definitely deceased , and when I purchased it not ’alf an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of movement was due to it bein’ tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk. Monty Python
  • Belonging to the dead.
  • * The executor’s commission for winding up the deceased estate was 3.5%.
  • (legal): One who has died. In property law', the alternate term decedent is generally used. In ' criminal law , “the deceased” refers to the victim of a homicide.

    • Synonyms

    * (no longer alive) asleep, at peace, at rest, dead, departed, late, gone

    Usage notes

    * Not to be confused with diseased (affected with or suffering from disease)

    Noun

    (deceased)
  • A dead person
  • * The deceased was interred in his local churchyard.
  • (plural deceased ) dead people
  • * A memorial to the deceased of two World Wars.
  • (legal): One who has died. In property law', the alternate term decedent is generally used. In ' criminal law , “the deceased” refers to the victim of a homicide.

    • Synonyms

    * (dead person) dead person, dead soul, deceased person, decedent, departed, late * dead people, dead souls, deceased people, decedents, departed

    Usage notes

    Deceased'' is commonly used in legal and journalistic settings. ''Departed is most commonly used in religious settings.

    fatality

    English

    Noun

    (fatalities)
  • The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
  • Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate.
  • That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
  • * William Wilkie Collins
    • What can I say, or think of this most terrible of fatalities ?
  • Death.
  • An accident that causes death.
  • * 2011 , David Foster Wallace, The Pale King , page 13:
    • the whole thing felt like being in a near traffic fatality avoided by inches and later not being able to think of the whole thing lest you begin shaking...
  • (video games ) A move where one character kills another.

    • Synonyms

    * (state proceeding from destiny) inevitability * mortality