LETHALITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of being deadly

Synonyms:

deadliness; lethality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("lethality" 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 "lethality"):

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

Derivation:

lethal (of an instrument of certain death)