mortality
[noun]
Synonyms:
- humanity, impermanence, transience
- killing, bloodshed, carnage, death, destruction, fatality

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

mor‧tal‧i‧ty /mɔːˈtæləti, mɔːˈtælɪti $ mɔːr-/ noun (plural mortalities)

1. [uncountable] (also morˈtality ˌrate / $ .'.../) the number of deaths during a particular period of time among a particular type or group of people:
Mortality from heart disease varies widely across the world.
infant/child/maternal/adult mortality
an appallingly high infant mortality rate (=number of babies who die)

2. [uncountable] the condition of being human and having to die Antonym : immortality:
My mother’s death forced me to face the fact of my own mortality.

3. [countable] technical a death:
mortalities from cancer

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

mortality
noun
ADJ. high Poor hygiene led to high mortality among children.
adult, child, infant
VERB + MORTALITY reduce measures that should reduce infant mortality
MORTALITY + VERB increase | decrease, fall
MORTALITY + NOUN rate
PREP. ~ among Mortality among immigrant groups was higher than average.
~ from a lower annual mortality from cancer
PHRASES a change/a decline/an increase in mortality

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