fatality

Etymology

From French fatalité. equivalent to fatal + -ity.

noun

1. The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. [from 17th c.]
2. Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate. [from 17th c.]
3. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. [from 18th c.]
   What can I say, or think of this most terrible of fatalities? 1851, Wilkie Collins, The Twin Sisters
4. Death.
5. An accident that causes death. [from 19th c.]
   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... 2011, David Foster Wallace, The Pale King, page 13
6. A person killed.
7. (video games) A move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent.