English Explanatory Dictionary

mortality

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The state or quality of being mortal.
  2. The state of being susceptible to death.
  3. The quality of being punishable by death.
  4. The quality of causing death.
  5. The number of deaths; and, usually and especially, the number of deaths per time unit (usually per year), expressed as a rate.
  6. Deaths resulting from an event (such as a war, epidemic or disaster).
  7. The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.
  8. Death.
  9. Mortals collectively.

Pronunciation

/mɔɹˈtælɪti/ en-us-mortality.ogg

Word forms

mortality mortalities

Etymology

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

Synonyms

deadliness lethality w:mortality rate MR death rate DR fatality quietus death tomb celestial transfer decease decomposition defunction dematerialization demise dirt nap doom exit expiration liquidation mortality passing repose sleep of the just sunset the big sleep crash downfall fall (the) bane (the) end humankind humanity mankind

Antonyms

immortality

Related words

mortal

Derived words

attritional mortality bill of mortality catastrophic mortality hypermortality infant mortality maternal mortality morbimortality mortality table natimortality overmortality submortality
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