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fatality Synonyms

Another word for fatality

Choosing another word for fatality depends on context, so the 13 synonyms and similar words below are separated across 3 exact definitions and ranked by match strength.
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• noun (Context 1)

An occurrence of death resulting from an accident, disaster, war, or disease, or the person who dies in such an event.

Usage Example

"Improved highway safety regulations have significantly reduced the number of traffic fatalities over the past decade."

Strongest
death
Strong
casualty
mortality
Weak
loss

• noun (Context 2)

The quality or capacity of causing death or ruin; deadliness.

Usage Example

"Medical researchers studied the high deadliness of the untreated viral infection."

Strongest
deadliness
lethality
Strong
malignancy
virulence

• noun (Context 3)

The quality of being predetermined by fate or destiny; helplessness in the face of inevitable events.

Usage Example

"A sense of tragic inevitability hangs over the characters from the opening scene of the play."

Strongest
inevitability
Strong
destiny
fate
predestination
doom

Opposites of fatality

The opposite of fatality shifts depending on context. Common opposites include:

survivor
harmlessness
survival
contingency
safety
chance
See all opposites of fatality

• Nearby Words

fatalist
fatalistic
fatalistically
fatality
fatally
fatback
fatberg

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Wordmom. (2026). Synonyms for Fatality. In Wordmom Thesaurus. Retrieved Nov 5, 2026, from https://wordmom.com/synonyms/fatality
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