Fatality vs. Casualty

By Jaxson

  • Fatality (noun)

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

  • Fatality (noun)

    Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate.

  • Fatality (noun)

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

  • Fatality (noun)

    Death.

  • Fatality (noun)

    An accident that causes death.

  • Fatality (noun)

    A person killed.

  • Fatality (noun)

    A move where one character kills another.

  • Casualty (noun)

    Chance nature; randomness.

  • Casualty (noun)

    Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.

  • Casualty (noun)

    A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.

  • Casualty (noun)

    Specifically, a person who has been killed (not only injured) due to an accident or through an act of violence; a fatality.

  • Casualty (noun)

    A person in military service who becomes unavailable for duty, for any reason (notably death, injury, illness, capture, or desertion).

  • Casualty (noun)

    The accident and emergency department of a hospital.

Wiktionary
  • Fatality (noun)

    an occurrence of death by accident, in war, or from disease

    “80 per cent of pedestrian fatalities occur in built-up areas”

  • Fatality (noun)

    helplessness in the face of fate

    “a sense of fatality gripped her”

  • Casualty (noun)

    a person killed or injured in a war or accident

    “the shelling caused thousands of civilian casualties”

  • Casualty (noun)

    a person or thing badly affected by an event or situation

    “the building industry has been one of the casualties of the recession”

  • Casualty (noun)

    the department of a hospital providing immediate treatment for emergency cases.

    “he went to casualty to have a cut stitched”

  • Casualty (noun)

    (chiefly in insurance) an accident or disaster

    “the Insurers acquire all the Policyholder’s rights in respect of the casualty which caused the loss”

Oxford Dictionary

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