Fatality vs. Casualty — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Fatality and Casualty
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Definitions
Fatality
An occurrence of death by accident, in war, or from disease
80 per cent of pedestrian fatalities occur in built-up areas
Casualty
A person killed or injured in a war or accident
The shelling caused thousands of civilian casualties
Fatality
Helplessness in the face of fate
A sense of fatality gripped her
Casualty
One who is injured or killed in an accident
A train wreck with many casualties.
Fatality
A death resulting from an accident or disaster
Highway fatalities.
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Casualty
One who is injured, killed, captured, or missing in action through engagement with an enemy
Battlefield casualties were high.
Fatality
One who is killed as a result of such an occurrence
The driver was one of the fatalities.
Casualty
One that is harmed or eliminated as a result of an action or circumstance
The corner grocery was a casualty of the expanding supermarkets.
Fatality
The ability to cause death or disaster.
Casualty
An accident, especially one involving serious injury or loss of life.
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Fatality
The quality of being determined by fate.
Casualty
Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.
Fatality
A decree made by fate; destiny.
Casualty
A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.
Fatality
The quality of being doomed to disaster.
Casualty
(proscribed) Specifically, a person who has been killed (not only injured) due to an accident or through an act of violence; a fatality.
Fatality
The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. 17
Casualty
(military) A person in military service who becomes unavailable for duty, for any reason (notably death, injury, illness, capture, or desertion).
Fatality
Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate. 17
Casualty
(British) The accident and emergency department of a hospital providing immediate treatment; a casualty department or emergency room.
Fatality
That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. 18
Casualty
An incidental charge or payment.
Fatality
Death.
Casualty
Someone or something adversely affected by a decision, event or situation.
Fatality
An accident that causes death. 19
Casualty
(obsolete) Chance nature; randomness.
Fatality
A person killed.
Casualty
That which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency.
Losses that befall them by mere casualty.
Fatality
(video games) A move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent.
Casualty
Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an unhappy casualty.
Fatality
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.
Casualty
Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion.
Fatality
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.
By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting.
Casualty
Someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement
Fatality
That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
Casualty
Someone injured or killed in an accident
Fatality
A death resulting from an accident or a disaster;
A decrease in the number of automobile fatalities
Casualty
An accident that causes someone to die
Fatality
The quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters
Casualty
A decrease of military personnel or equipment
