mortality

== English == === Etymology === From Old French mortalite, from Latin mortālitās, from mortālis (“relating to death”), from mors (“death”); equivalent to mortal +‎ -ity. === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /mɔɹˈtælɪti/ === Noun === mortality (countable and uncountable, plural mortalities) The state or quality of being mortal. The state of being susceptible to death. Antonym: immortality 1714, Alexander Pope, letter to John Gay in Letters of Mr. Pope, and Several Eminent Persons, London, 1735, Volume 2, p. 208,[1] I have been perpetually troubled with sickness of late, which has made me so melancholy that the Immortality of the Soul has been my constant Speculation, as the Mortality of my Body my constant Plague. (archaic) The quality of being punishable by death. (archaic) The quality of causing death. Synonyms: deadliness, lethality 1685, Thomas Willis, Tract of Fevers, Chapter 15, in The London Practice of Physick, London: Thomas Basset and William Crooke, p. 626,[4] […] the Fevers of Women in Child-bed; to wit, both the Lacteal, and that called Putrid, which, by reason of its Mortality, deserves to be call’d Malignant. 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). (biology, ecology, demography, insurance) The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time. Synonyms: mortality rate, MR, death rate, DR Coordinate terms: case fatality rate, infection fatality rate, lethality (figuratively) Death. Synonyms: fatality, quietus; see also Thesaurus:death (figuratively, archaic) Mortals collectively. Synonyms: humankind, humanity, mankind ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== mortal ==== Translations ====