mortality

Meanings

Plural: mortalities

Noun

• the quality or state of being mortal
• the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year
• The state or quality of being mortal.
• The state of being susceptible to death.
• The state or quality of being mortal.
• The quality of being punishable by death.
• The state or quality of being mortal.
• The quality of causing death.
• The number of deaths; and, usually and especially, the number of deaths per time unit (usually per year), expressed as a rate.
• Deaths resulting from an event (such as a war, epidemic or disaster).
• The number of deaths; and, usually and especially, the number of deaths per time unit (usually per year), expressed as a rate.
• The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.
• Death.
• Mortals collectively.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

immortality

Related Words

mortal