mortality

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mortality

/mɔɹˈtælɪti/ US

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

noun mortalities

countable, uncountable The state of being susceptible to death. [H]er minde remembreth her mortalitie, / vvhat ſo is fayreſt ſhall to earth returne.
Opposite: immortality
archaic, countable, uncountable The quality of being punishable by death. […] actions of Charity do alleviate, as I may say, and take off from the Mortality of the Sin.
archaic, countable, uncountable The quality of causing death. Hold therefore Angelo: / In our remoue, be thou at full, our selfe: / Mortallitie and Mercie in Vienna / Liue in thy tongue, and heart: Old Escalus / Though first in question, is thy secondary. / Take thy Commission.
Similar: deadliness, lethality
countable, uncountable Deaths resulting from an event (such as a war, epidemic or disaster). […] the Mortality was so great in the Yard or Alley, that there was no Body left to give Notice to the Buriers or Sextons, that there were any dead Bodies there to be bury’d.
countable, uncountable The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time. In foundling hospitals, and among the children brought up by parish charities the mortality is still greater than among those of the common people.
Similar: w:mortality rate, MR, death rate, DR
countable, figuratively, uncountable Death. Why am I mockt with death, and length’nd out / To deathless pain? how gladly would I meet / Mortalitie my sentence, and be Earth / Insensible,
Similar: fatality, quietus, death, end, tomb, celestial transfer, decease, decomposition, defunction, dematerialization, demise, dirt nap
archaic, countable, figuratively, uncountable Mortals collectively. It is not fit Mortalitie should knowe / What his eternall prouidence decreed,
Similar: humankind, humanity, mankind

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: morbidity, deathrate, mortality rate, lethality, die, dead, death, carnage, kill, toll, killer, survival, attrition, incidence, life, infant

Translations

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noun condition of being susceptible to death

Español	mortalidad
한국어	사망 samang
日本語	必滅 hitsumetsu
中文	必死 bìsǐ
Português	mortalidade
Français	mortalité, condition mortelle
Deutsch	Sterblichkeit
Italiano	mortalità
Ελληνικά	θνησιμότητα thnisimótita
Русский	сме́ртность smértnostʹ
עברית	תְּמוּתָה tmutá

noun death rate

Español	mortalidad
한국어	사망률 samangnyul
日本語	死亡率 shibōritsu
中文	死亡率 sǐwánglǜ
Português	mortalidade
Français	mortalité, taux de mortalité
Deutsch	Sterblichkeit, Mortalität, Sterbeziffer, Mortalitätsziffer
Italiano	mortalità
Русский	сме́ртность smértnostʹ
עברית	תְּמוּתָה tmutá

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"mortality." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/mortality. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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Chicago

"mortality." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/mortality.

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@misc{mortality_2026,
  title = {mortality},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mortality},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}