Mortality vs Fatality - What's the difference?
mortality | fatality |
The condition of being susceptible to death.
(demography) The death rate of a population.
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.
Fatality is a synonym of mortality.
As nouns the difference between mortality and fatality
is that mortality is the condition of being susceptible to death while fatality is the state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.mortality
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(wikipedia mortality)Noun
Antonyms
* immortality * eternalityfatality
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...