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Lethality vs Fatality - What's the difference?

lethality | fatality |

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

English

Noun

(lethalities)
  • the fact of something being lethal; the ability of something to kill
  • the rate of death of organisms exposed to something

    • fatality

    English

    Noun

    (fatalities)
  • 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
    • What can I say, or think of this most terrible of fatalities ?
  • Death.
  • An accident that causes death.
  • * 2011 , David Foster Wallace, The Pale King , page 13:
    • 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...
  • (video games ) A move where one character kills another.

    • Synonyms

    * (state proceeding from destiny) inevitability * mortality