Harm vs Fatality - What's the difference?
harm | fatality |
Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
* , chapter=13
, title= That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
* (William Shakespeare)
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
Death.
An accident that causes death.
* 2011 , David Foster Wallace, The Pale King , page 13:
(video games ) A move where one character kills another.
As a proper noun harm
is , low german, derived from herman, meaning "army man".As a noun fatality is
the state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.harm
English
(wikipedia harm)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.}}
- We, ignorant of ourselves, / Beg often our own harms .
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "harm": bodily, physical, environmental, emotional, financial, serious, irreparable, potential, long-term, short-term, permanent, lasting, material, substantial.Derived terms
* do no harm * harmer * harmless * harm's way * self-harm * unharmedAnagrams
* ----fatality
English
Noun
(fatalities)- What can I say, or think of this most terrible of fatalities ?
- 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...
