mortality

Noun

Meaning

The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying.

Human life; the life of a mortal being.

Those who are, or that which is, mortal; the human cace; humanity; human nature.

Death; destruction.

The whole sum or number of deaths in a given time or a given community; also, the proportion of deaths to population, or to a specific number of the population; death rate; as, a time of great, or low, mortality; the mortality among the settlers was alarming.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

mortality rate death rate death impermanence perishability transience fatality rate deathrate being man loss necrosis pestilence evanescence tol
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Antonyms

immortality phoenix nativity life flora birth
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Hypernyms

rate impermanence impermanency

Hyponyms

infant mortality infant mortality rate infant deathrate neonatal mortality neonatal mortality rate

Related terms

mortal

Phrases with the word

child mortality old-age mortality premature mortality mortality ratio cause of mortality causes of mortality

Examples

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. William Dean Howells

I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be. Maurice Gibb

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. Alphonse Allais

I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure. E. B. White

Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust. Francis Bacon

Remember, the wisdom of God may appear as foolishness to men, but the greatest single lesson we can learn in mortality is that when God speaks and a man obeys, that man will always be right. Thomas S. Monson

Close letter words and terms

mortalism mortalist mortalitie mortality among children mortality among elderly people mortality among infants