Other forms: fatalities
A fatality is a death caused by an accident or a disaster. No fatalities, road fatalities, the first fatality.
It is official and deliberately cold, which is why police and news reports use it: no fatalities is the phrase everybody hopes to hear. The older sense of the word is the quality of being fated, which is where the coldness comes from.
1nounfatalityA death caused by an accident or a disaster.
“The crash on the motorway caused one fatality and several injuries.”
fatality is a death.
French fatalite comes from Latin fatalis, decreed by fate, from fatum, what has been spoken.
French
fatalité
English, today
fatality
From French fatalité. equivalent to fatal + ity. The video game move sense was popularized by the Mortal Kombat series.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA