Lethality is an English word with synonyms like deadliness or unwholesomeness. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Lethality in a sentence
Lethality meaning
- The fact of something being lethal; the ability of something to kill.
- The degree of lethal (mortal) danger that something (usually a disease or a weapon) presents; the magnitude of its power to kill organisms exposed to it; this property is indirectly measured by any of various proxy rates, including mortality rate, case fatality rate, or infection fatality rate (for diseases) or kill rate (for weapons, pesticides, or parasites).
Synonyms of Lethality
Using Lethality
- The main meaning on this page is: The fact of something being lethal; the ability of something to kill. | The degree of lethal (mortal) danger that something (usually a disease or a weapon) presents; the magnitude of its power to kill organisms exposed to it; this property is indirectly measured by any of various proxy rates, including mortality rate, case fatality rate, or infection fatality rate (for diseases) or kill rate (for weapons, pesticides, or parasites).
- Useful related words include: deadliness, unwholesomeness, morbidness, morbidity.
- In the example corpus, lethality often appears in combinations such as: lethality of, and lethality, lethality and.
Context around Lethality
- Average sentence length in these examples: 18.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 11 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lethality
- In this selection, "lethality" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 18.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, answers, demonstrated, high, designation, war and cross stand out and add context to how "lethality" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1 and lethality is maybe and a high lethality designation would. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lethality" sits close to words such as acorns, acrobatics and acura, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lethality
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The only difference is the lethality of method. (8 words)
It doesn't convey anything about lethality or risk to the population. (12 words)
The direction, duration or precise lethality of the virus is a mystery. (12 words)
I suspect that those of us brought up during the horrors of nuclear errors and "demonstrated" lethality will never be persuaded that nuclear usage - weaponized or not, will ever be safe, will ever be without the risk of human error or malfeasance. (42 words)
Get in there and clean out all the social justice, politically correct garbage on top, and get back to lethality, war fighting, accountability, meritocracy, and readiness. (26 words)
Over the last month, there has been a low level of infections, with an average of fewer than 10 new cases per day and low lethality. (26 words)
Example sentences (20)
As its name suggests, it takes time, but its lethality is certain without the antidote.
Having often faced very dangerous circumstances, The Authority has grown incredibly adaptable to them, and most notably often answers lethality in kind.
I suspect that those of us brought up during the horrors of nuclear errors and "demonstrated" lethality will never be persuaded that nuclear usage - weaponized or not, will ever be safe, will ever be without the risk of human error or malfeasance.
It becomes apparent that humanity has created a genocidal stew of lethality in which we have to live.
It doesn't convey anything about lethality or risk to the population.
Situations that have been given a “high lethality designation” would get higher priority.
Before today’s update, the near-medium damage was set to an improper value, potentially allowing more ranged lethality than intended.
Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy said the recent test was another step toward strengthening the Australian Defence Force's "lethality".
Get in there and clean out all the social justice, politically correct garbage on top, and get back to lethality, war fighting, accountability, meritocracy, and readiness.
All three are outlined in a video by members of the Army’s Soldier Lethality Cross-Functional Team.
But a single minded focus on “lethality” and “warfighting” ignores much of the reality in the Pacific.
If the reports that the President knew about the lethality of this disease since January are true…put a fork in him.
In addition to survivability and lethality, more countries are seeking interoperability with friends and allies, and the F-35 delivers in this crucially important area.
Over the last month, there has been a low level of infections, with an average of fewer than 10 new cases per day and low lethality.
R0 of the flu is barely over 1, and lethality is maybe 0.1 percent.
The blue ring has varying degrees of lethality at different times during the game.
The direction, duration or precise lethality of the virus is a mystery.
The only difference is the lethality of method.
This exercise focused on evaluating data driven assessments of interoperability, lethality, and survivability.
Those include ‘designer drugs’ such fentanyl analogs, which can range greatly in potency and lethality.
Common combinations with lethality
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- lethality of 9×
- and lethality 8×
- lethality and 6×
- the lethality 6×
- lethality is 3×
- lethality in 2×
- of lethality 2×
- lethality or 2×
- high lethality 2×
- to lethality 2×