fatalness
Capacity to kill
Fatalness is the quality of being fatal—deadly or causing death.
The word is rare, with fatality serving most contexts where English needs a noun form: The fatality rate was alarming.
Fatalness occasionally appears in philosophical or literary contexts emphasizing the inherent deadly nature of something: the fatalness of the disease, the fatalness of his error.
Causing or capable of death
- deadlyAble to cause expiration
- mortalSubject to death
- deathlyResembling the grave
- terminalAt the endpoint
life-threatening · killer · murderous · death-dealing · killing · incurable · unsurvivable · inoperable
Extremely serious or urgent
- graveSerious and worrying
- criticalExpressing disapproval or importance
- severeExtremely harsh or strict
- acuteIntensely severe or perceptive
catastrophic · disastrous · calamitous · ruinous · devastating · irreversible · consequential · momentous
Causing severe destruction
- annihilatingDestroying utterly and completely
- devastatingCausing severe damage
- obliteratingDestroying beyond recognition
- destructiveCausing severe harm
cataclysmic · apocalyptic · ravaging · decimating · exterminating · eradicating · demolishing · crushing
Unavoidable grim fate
- destinyPredetermined course of events
- inescapableImpossible to avoid
- unavoidableImpossible to prevent
- predeterminedEstablished beforehand
predestined · foreordained · inexorable · certain · unalterable · irrevocable · immutable · decreed
lethal
Causing or capable of death
terminal · life-threatening · killer · murderous · death-dealing · killing · incurable · unsurvivable · inoperable
dire
Extremely serious or urgent
- graveSerious and worrying
- criticalExpressing disapproval or importance
- severeExtremely harsh or strict
acute · catastrophic · disastrous · calamitous · ruinous · devastating · irreversible · consequential · momentous · serious
ruinous
Causing severe destruction
- annihilatingDestroying utterly and completely
- devastatingCausing severe damage
- obliteratingDestroying beyond recognition
destructive · cataclysmic · apocalyptic · ravaging · decimating · exterminating · eradicating · demolishing · crushing · terminal
doom
Unavoidable grim fate
- destinyPredetermined course of events
- inescapableImpossible to avoid
- unavoidableImpossible to prevent
predetermined · predestined · foreordained · inexorable · certain · unalterable · irrevocable · immutable · decreed · ordained
fatalnesssurvivability
Capacity to endure
nonlethality · harmlessness · recoverability · curability · treatability
fatalnessmildness
Gentle, moderate quality
harmlessness · triviality · manageability · insignificance · slightness
fate, fatal, fateful, fatality, fatalism, fatally, nonfatal, fatalities, fatalistic