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Fatality vs Decease - What's the difference?

fatality | decease |

As nouns the difference between fatality and decease

is that fatality is the state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control while decease is death.

As a verb decease is

to die.

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

    decease

    English

    Noun

    (death) (-)
  • (formal) death
  • (obsolescent) Departure, especially departure from this life

    • Verb

    (deceas)
  • To die.
  • *, II.17:
    • After which usurped victorie, he presently deceased : and partly through the excessive joy he thereby conceived.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Usage notes

    The noun and verb forms are much less commonly used than the participial adjective "deceased," particularly outside formal, literary, or legal usage.