Lethality vs Fatality - What's the difference?
lethality | fatality |
the fact of something being lethal; the ability of something to kill
the rate of death of organisms exposed to something
The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate.
That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
* William Wilkie Collins
Death.
An accident that causes death.
* 2011 , David Foster Wallace, The Pale King , page 13:
(video games ) A move where one character kills another.
As nouns the difference between lethality and fatality
is that lethality is the fact of something being lethal; the ability of something to kill while fatality is the state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.lethality
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(lethalities)fatality
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(fatalities)- What can I say, or think of this most terrible of fatalities ?
- the whole thing felt like being in a near traffic fatality avoided by inches and later not being able to think of the whole thing lest you begin shaking...