What is "fatalities"

Fatality \Fa*tal"i*ty\, n.;pl. Fatalities. [L. fatalitas: cf. F. fatalit['e]]

1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.

   The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events.
   --South.

2. The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility.

   The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality.
   --Ser T. Browne.

   By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting.
   --Eikon Basilike.

3. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
   --Dryden.

n. (plural of fatality English)