Mortality

Quick meaning: Mortality is a noun meaning The state or quality of being mortal.

Meaning

The state or quality of being mortal.

More Meanings

1. The number of deaths; and, usually and especially, the number of deaths per time unit (usually per year), expressed as a rate.
2. (figuratively) Death.
3. (figuratively, archaic) Mortals collectively.

Example Sentences

[S]leepe seiz’d his weary eye, / That salues all care, to all mortality.

It is not fit Mortalitie should knowe / What his eternall prouidence decreed,

[…] the moldy odor of mortality hung wet in the air with the sulphurous fog […]

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,

Word Forms

• mortalities

Synonyms for mortality

Depending on context, synonyms include fatality, quietus, death, tomb, decease, decomposition.

Antonyms for mortality

Common opposites include immortality.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include morbidity, deathrate, lethality, die, dead, death.

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