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LETHALITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)
