mortality

CEFRC1

/mɔɹˈtælɪti/

noun

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  1. 01

    noun

    The state of being subject to death.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    The state or quality of being mortal.

Examples

  • Above the moon, everything is eternal; below, there is nothing save mortality.

  • People do not enjoy being confronted with their mortality.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The state of being susceptible to death.

  2. The quality of being punishable by death.

  3. The number of deaths; and, usually and especially, the number of deaths per time unit (usually per year), expressed as a rate.

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In context

  • The mortality rate per 1000 live births are set out in figure 13.1.

  • 1685, Thomas Willis, Tract of Fevers, Chapter 15, in The London Practice of Physick, London: Thomas Basset and William Crooke, p. 626, […] the Fevers of Women in Child-bed; to wit, both the Lacteal, and that called Putrid, which, by reason of its Mortality, d...

  • 1714, Alexander Pope, letter to John Gay in Letters of Mr. Pope, and Several Eminent Persons, London, 1735, Volume 2, p. 208, I have been perpetually troubled with sickness of late, which has made me so melancholy that the Immortality of the Soul has been my...

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Origin

noun

From Old French mortalite, from Latin mortālitās, from mortālis (“relating to death”), from mors (“death”); equivalent to mortal + -ity.