"mortality" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /mɔɹˈtælɪti/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-mortality.ogg [US] Forms: mortalities [plural]
Etymology: From Old French mortalite, from Latin mortālitās, from mortālis (“relating to death”), from mors (“death”); equivalent to mortal + -ity. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*mer-|id=die}}, {{uder|en|fro|mortalite}} Old French mortalite, {{uder|en|la|mortālitās}} Latin mortālitās, {{m|la|mortālis||relating to death}} mortālis (“relating to death”), {{m|la|mors||death}} mors (“death”), {{suffix|en|mortal|ity}} mortal + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} mortality (countable and uncountable, plural mortalities)
  1. The state or quality of being mortal.
    The state of being susceptible to death.
    Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (condition of being susceptible to death): θνητότης (thnētótēs) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), mortalidá [feminine] (Asturian), смъртоносност (smǎrtonosnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), mortalitat [feminine] (Catalan), 必死 (bìsǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), smrtelnost [feminine] (Czech), dødelighed [common-gender] (Danish), sterfelijkheid [feminine] (Dutch), mortaliteit [feminine] (Dutch), morteco (Esperanto), kuolevaisuus (Finnish), mortalité [feminine] (French), condition mortelle [feminine] (French), mortalidade [feminine] (Galician), სასიკვდილოობა (sasiḳvdilooba) (Georgian), Sterblichkeit [feminine] (German), θνησιμότητα (thnisimótita) [feminine] (Greek), תְּמוּתָה (tmutá) [feminine] (Hebrew), halandóság (Hungarian), mortalitas (Indonesian), básmhaireacht [feminine] (Irish), mortalità [feminine] (Italian), 必滅 (hitsumetsu) (alt: ひつめつ) (Japanese), 사망 (samang) (Korean), өлүмдүүлүк (ölümdüülük) (Kyrgyz), ອັດຕາການຕາຍ (ʼat tā kān tāi) (Lao), Stierflechkeet [feminine] (Luxembourgish), mortaliti (Malay), mortalité [feminine] (Norman), dødelighet [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), dødelegheit [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), døyelegheit (Norwegian Nynorsk), dēadlīcnes [feminine] (Old English), śmiertelność [feminine] (Polish), mortalidade [feminine] (Portuguese), сме́ртность (smértnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), smrtnost [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), mortalidad [feminine] (Spanish), dödlighet [common-gender] (Swedish), ölümlülük (Turkish), сме́ртність (smértnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian), deadöf (Volapük)
    Sense id: en-mortality-en-noun-QeBeWSQp Disambiguation of 'condition of being susceptible to death': 62 7 9 2 5 12 3
  2. The state or quality of being mortal.
    (archaic) The quality of being punishable by death.
    Tags: archaic, countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-mortality-en-noun-LsdLpr2U
  3. The state or quality of being mortal.
    (archaic) The quality of causing death.
    Tags: archaic, countable, uncountable Synonyms: deadliness, lethality
    Sense id: en-mortality-en-noun-TQWYIySV
  4. 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).
    Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-mortality-en-noun-n4ML78Ic
  5. The number of deaths; and, usually and especially, the number of deaths per time unit (usually per year), expressed as a rate.
    (biology, ecology, demography, insurance) The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Biology, Demography, Ecology, Insurance, Demography Synonyms: death rate, mortality rate, casualty rate Translations (death rate): mortalidá [feminine] (Asturian), смяро́тнасць (smjarótnascʹ) (Belarusian), смъртност (smǎrtnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), mortalitat [feminine] (Catalan), 死亡率 (sǐwánglǜ) (Chinese Mandarin), mortalita [feminine] (Czech), dødelighed [common-gender] (Danish), kuolleisuus (Finnish), mortalité [feminine] (French), taux de mortalité [masculine] (French), mortalidade [feminine] (Galician), სიკვდილიანობა (siḳvdilianoba) (Georgian), Sterblichkeit [feminine] (German), Mortalität [feminine] (German), Sterbeziffer [feminine] (German), Mortalitätsziffer [feminine] (German), תְּמוּתָה (tmutá) [feminine] (Hebrew), halandóság (Hungarian), halálozási ráta (Hungarian), halálozás (Hungarian), mortalitas (Indonesian), mortalità (Italian), 死亡率 (shibōritsu) (alt: しぼうりつ) (Japanese), 사망률 (samangnyul) (Korean), Mortalitéit [feminine] (Luxembourgish), Stierflechkeet [feminine] (Luxembourgish), dødelighet [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), dødsrate [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), dødelegheit [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), døyelegheit [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), dødsrate [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), śmiertelność [feminine] (Polish), umieralność [feminine] (Polish), mortalidade [feminine] (Portuguese), сме́ртность (smértnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), mortalidad [feminine] (Spanish), dödlighet [common-gender] (Swedish), сме́ртність (smértnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-mortality-en-noun-WNPbuXhc Disambiguation of Demography: 13 10 12 5 43 8 8 Categories (other): English links with redundant alt parameters, English links with redundant wikilinks, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ality, English terms suffixed with -ity, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 18 9 11 8 31 12 11 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 17 10 12 7 30 12 12 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 13 9 10 5 31 17 15 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ality: 15 12 13 6 32 11 11 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ity: 15 12 12 6 32 11 11 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 15 14 16 7 29 10 9 Topics: biology, business, demographics, demography, ecology, insurance, natural-sciences Disambiguation of 'death rate': 10 7 8 5 45 18 8
  6. (figuratively) Death. Tags: countable, figuratively, uncountable Categories (topical): Death
    Sense id: en-mortality-en-noun-tSRRXLIc Disambiguation of Death: 21 8 9 3 10 44 5
  7. (figuratively, archaic) Mortals collectively. Tags: archaic, countable, figuratively, uncountable Synonyms: humankind, humanity, mankind
    Sense id: en-mortality-en-noun-U6odBUfy
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: attritional mortality, bill of mortality, catastrophic mortality, hypermortality, infant mortality, maternal mortality, morbimortality, natimortality, overmortality Related terms: mortal

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          "text": "1714, Alexander Pope, letter to John Gay in Letters of Mr. Pope, and Several Eminent Persons, London, 1735, Volume 2, p. 208,\nI 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."
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          "ref": "1829, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Timbuctoo”, in A Complete Collection of the English Poems Which Have Obtained the Chancellor’s Gold Medal in the University of Cambridge, Cambridge: Macmillan, published 1859, page 156",
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          "ref": "1798, Thomas Malthus, chapter 2, in An Essay on the Principle of Population, London: J. Johnson, pages 32–33",
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          "text": "1728, John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera, Dublin: George Risk et al., Act II, Scene 11, p. 37,\nLearn to bear your Husband’s Death like a reasonable Woman. ’Tis not the fashion, now-a-days so much as to affect Sorrow upon these Occasions. No Woman would ever marry, if she had not the Chance of Mortality for a Release."
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      "word": "mortalidá"
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      "sense": "condition of being susceptible to death",
      "word": "必死"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "condition of being susceptible to death",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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      "code": "ca",
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "code": "cs",
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      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "death rate",
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "death rate",
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      "code": "fr",
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      "word": "mortalité"
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      "code": "fr",
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      "code": "gl",
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      "code": "ka",
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      "code": "de",
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      "code": "he",
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      "code": "hu",
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
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      "code": "hu",
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      "code": "id",
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      "code": "it",
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      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "samangnyul",
      "sense": "death rate",
      "word": "사망률"
    },
    {
      "code": "lb",
      "lang": "Luxembourgish",
      "sense": "death rate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Mortalitéit"
    },
    {
      "code": "lb",
      "lang": "Luxembourgish",
      "sense": "death rate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Stierflechkeet"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "death rate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dødelighet"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "death rate",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dødsrate"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "death rate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dødelegheit"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "death rate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "døyelegheit"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "death rate",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dødsrate"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "death rate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "śmiertelność"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "death rate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "umieralność"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "death rate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mortalidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "smértnostʹ",
      "sense": "death rate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "сме́ртность"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "death rate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mortalidad"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "death rate",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "dödlighet"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "smértnistʹ",
      "sense": "death rate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "сме́ртність"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "mortality"
  ],
  "word": "mortality"
}

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