About The Word Mortality
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Mortality
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What's The Definition Of Mortality?
[n] the quality or state of being mortal
[n] the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year Synonyms | Synonyms for Mortality: death rate | deathrate | fatality rate | morbidity | mortality rate Related Terms | Find terms related to Mortality: Adam | banefulness | caducity | changeableness | clay | corruptibility | deadliness | death | death rate | death toll | ephemerality | ephemeralness | evanescence | fallen humanity | fatality | finitude | fleetingness | flesh | frailty | fugacity | generation of man | genus Homo | hominid | Hominidae | homo | Homo sapiens | human equation | human family | human frailty | human nature | human race | human species | human weakness | humanity | humankind | humanness | impermanence | impermanency | instability | le genre humain | lethality | malignance | malignancy | malignity | man | mankind | momentariness | mortal flesh | mortalness | mortals | mutability | perishability | perniciousness | race of man | transience | transiency | transientness | transitoriness | virulence | volatility | weakness See Also | impermanence | impermanency | infant deathrate | infant mortality | infant mortality rate | neonatal mortality | neonatal mortality rate | rate Mortality In Webster's Dictionary \Mor*tal"i*ty\, n. [L. mortalitas: cf. F.
mortalit['e].]
1. The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to
death or to the necessity of dying.
When I saw her die, I then did think on your
mortality. --Carew.
2. Human life; the life of a mortal being.
From this instant There 's nothing serious in
mortality. --Shak.
3. Those who are, or that which is, mortal; the human cace;
humanity; human nature.
Take these tears, mortality's relief. --Pope.
4. Death; destruction. --Shak.
5. The whole sum or number of deaths in a given time or a
given community; also, the proportion of deaths to
population, or to a specific number of the population;
death rate; as, a time of great, or low, mortality; the
mortality among the settlers was alarming.
{Bill of mortality}. See under {Bill}.
{Law of mortality}, a mathematical relation between the
numbers living at different ages, so that from a given
large number of persons alive at one age, it can be
computed what number are likely to survive a given number
of years.
{Table of mortality}, a table exhibiting the average relative
number of persons who survive, or who have died, at the
end of each year of life, out of a given number supposed
to have been born at the same time.
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