Mortality vs Lethality - What's the difference?

mortality | lethality |


As nouns the difference between mortality and lethality

is that mortality is the condition of being susceptible to death while lethality is the fact of something being lethal; the ability of something to kill.

mortality

English

(wikipedia mortality)

Noun

  • The condition of being susceptible to death.
  • (demography) The death rate of a population.

    • Antonyms

    * immortality * eternality

    Related terms

    * mortal

    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