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Lethality

Definition: Lethality

Lethality

Noun

1. The quality of being deadly.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Lethality

Synonym: deadliness (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Lethality

DomainTitle

Books

  • Acute lethality of wastewater disinfection alternatives to juvenile rainbow trout (Salmo Gairdneri) (reference)

  • CRC Handbook of Lethality Guides for Low-Acid Canned Foods (reference)

  • Drug Interaction and Lethality Analysis (reference)

  • Mammalian Radiation Lethality a Disturbance in Cellular Kinetics (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Lethality

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Sudan

During this period, the civil war intensified in lethality and the economy continued to deteriorate. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Lethality

"Lethality" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lethality" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lethality

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  lethality process

4

  assessment lethality

4

  lethality

3

  assessment lethality suicide

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Lethality

Language Translations for "lethality"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

摧毁效能. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

dodelijkheid. (various references)

   

French

  

léthalité, létalité. (various references)

   

German

  

Letalität, Vernichtungswahrscheinlichkeit. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φονικότητα (murderousness), θανασιμότητα. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מות ות, קטל ות (deadliness, murderousness). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megsemmisítõ hatás. (various references)

   

Italian

  

letalit , mortalit (death casualty, death rate, drain, moribundity, mortality). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

치사성. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ethalitylay

   

Portuguese

  

mortalidade (death casualty, drain, mortality). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

letalidad, mortalidad (death, death casualty, death rate, demise, mortality, toll). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tính có thể l m chết người, khả năng gây chết người. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Lethality"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "lethality" (pronounced lētha"lutē)
5-a" l u t ēabnormality, actuality, banality, bestiality, bisexuality, brutality, causality, centrality, collegiality, commonality, conditionality, confidentiality, congeniality, constitutionality, criminality, criticality, cyclicality, dimensionality, duality, eventuality, extraterritoriality, fatality, finality, formality, frugality, functionality, generality, geniality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, hospitality, illegality, immorality, immortality, impartiality, impersonality, individuality, informality, instrumentality, irrationality, legality, liberality, locality, materiality, mentality, modality, morality, mortality, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, neutrality, normality, originality, partiality, personality, plurality, practicality, principality, proportionality, punctuality, rationality, reality, sensuality, sentimentality, sexuality, speciality, spirituality, technicality, theatricality, tonality, totality, triviality, universality, unreality, venality, vitality.
4-l u t ēability, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affordability, agility, amiability, applicability, availability, believability, capability, civility, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, convertibility, credibility, credulity, culpability, debility, deductibility, deniability, dependability, desirability, disability, docility, ductility, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, equality, facility, fallibility, feasibility, fertility, fidelity, flammability, flexibility, fragility, frivolity, futility, gentility, gullibility, hostility, humility, immobility, impossibility, inability, inaccessibility, incivility, incompatibility, incredulity, indestructibility, inequality, inevitability, infallibility, infertility, infidelity, inflexibility, instability, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irresponsibility, irritability, legibility, liability, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, miscibility, mobility, motility, nobility, nonutility, palatability, permeability, plausibility, polity, portability, possibility, predictability, probability, profitability, quality, readability, reliability, respectability, responsibility, seasonality, senility, sensibility, stability, sterility, suitability, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, tranquility, transferability, unavailability, unpredictability, unreliability, utility, variability, versatility, viability, virility, visibility, volatility, vulnerability.
3-u t ēabsurdity, acidity, activity, acuity, adversity, affinity, aggressivity, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, barbarity, biodiversity, brevity, calamity, capacity, captivity, cavity, celebrity, charity, chastity, clarity, commodity, community, complexity, complicity, conductivity, conformity, congruity, connectivity, continuity, creativity, crotchety, curiosity, deformity, deity, density, depravity, deputy, dexterity, dignity, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, enmity, enormity, entity, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, exclusivity, expressivity, extremity, falsity, familiarity, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, festivity, fluidity, fraternity, generosity, gratuity, gravity, heredity, heterogeneity, hilarity, homogeneity, humanity, humidity, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illiquidity, immaturity, immunity, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inactivity, incapacity, incongruity, indemnity, indignity, inequity, inferiority, infinity, infirmity, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, insularity, integrity, intensity, irregularity, laity, laxity, levity, liquidity, lividity, longevity, majority, masculinity, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, minority, modernity, monstrosity, morbidity, multiplicity, nativity, necessity, negativity, Nonconformity, nonentity, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, overcapacity, oversensitivity, parity, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, perpetuity, perplexity, perversity, piety, polarity, pomposity, popularity, posterity, priority, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, purity, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, reactivity, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, religiosity, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, security, selectivity, seniority, sensitivity, serendipity, serenity, severity, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, specificity, spontaneity, stupidity, subjectivity, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, temerity, tenacity, timidity, toxicity, Trinity, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, university, unpopularity, uppity, validity, vanity, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, veracity, Verity, vicinity, virginity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity, vulgarity.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Lethality

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-l-l-t-t-y"

-2 letters: hyalite, laithly, lithely, tallith.

-3 letters: halite, hyetal, lately, lealty, lethal, little, lyttae, taille, tallit, telial, thalli.

-4 letters: alley, atilt, ethyl, hilly, ileal, laith, laity, lathe, lathi, lathy, latte, lithe, lytta, tally, telia, telly, theta, thill, tilth, tithe, title, tythe.

-5 letters: alit, ally, eath, elhi, haet, hail, hale, hall, halt, hate, heal, heat, heil, hell.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-l-l-t-t-y"
 

+1 letter: stealthily, thetically.

 

+3 letters: athletically, bathetically, pathetically, theatrically, theistically, thematically.

 

+4 letters: aesthetically, anthophyllite, apathetically, atheistically, authentically, intrathecally, platyhelminth, synthetically, theoretically.

 

+5 letters: anesthetically, anthophyllites, antithetically, arithmetically, empathetically, hypothetically, lightheartedly, mathematically, metathetically, platyhelminths, polytheistical, prosthetically, telepathically, theocratically, thermolability.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Lethality


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 65 74 68 61 6C 69 74 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100101 01110100 01101000 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#101 &#116 &#104 &#97 &#108 &#105 &#116 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0065 0074 0068 0061 006C 0069 0074 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

467186746778758691

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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