mortality

Meaning

  1. (countable, uncountable) The state or quality of being mortal.
  2. (archaic, countable, uncountable) The state or quality of being mortal.
  3. (archaic, countable, uncountable) The state or quality of being mortal.
  4. (countable, uncountable) The number of deaths; and, usually and especially, the number of deaths per time unit (usually per year), expressed as a rate.
  5. (countable, uncountable) The number of deaths; and, usually and especially, the number of deaths per time unit (usually per year), expressed as a rate.
  6. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) Death.
  7. (archaic, countable, figuratively, uncountable) Mortals collectively.

Opposite of
immortality
Synonyms

death rate

mortality rate

deathrate
death
A1
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perishableness
fatality rate
dying
A2

death-rate

people
A1
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public
A2
transience
transiency
transitoriness

natural death

fetality

rate of death

accident
A2
way of all flesh
crowd
B1
fatality
26k
folk
B2
humanity
B2
life
A1
longevity
22k
mankind
B2
Translations

mortalité
mortalidad
mortalità
Sterblichkeit
mortalidade
mortalitat
Mortalität

θνησιμότητα

mortaliteit
sterftecijfer
sterfelijkheid

tasso di mortalità

وفيات

taux de mortalité
Frequency

C2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/mɔɹˈtælɪti/
Etymology

From Old French mortalite, from Latin mortālitās, from mortālis (“relating to death”), from mors (“death”); equivalent to mortal + -ity.

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