DEADLINESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of being deadly

Synonyms:

deadliness; lethality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("deadliness" is a kind of...):

morbidity; morbidness; unwholesomeness (the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "deadliness"):

fatality (the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters)

Derivation:

deadly ((of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect)

deadly (causing or capable of causing death)

deadly (of an instrument of certain death)

deadly (exceedingly harmful)

deadly (involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death)

deadly (extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom)