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mortality.

The state or quality of being mortal.

9 characters4 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/mɔɹˈtælɪti/General-American
  1. The state or quality of being mortal. The state of being susceptible to death.

    countable · uncountable
  2. The state or quality of being mortal. The quality of being punishable by death.

    archaic · countable · uncountable
  3. The state or quality of being mortal. The quality of causing death.

    archaic · countable · uncountable
  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).

    countable · uncountable
  5. The number of deaths; and, usually and especially, the number of deaths per time unit (usually per year), expressed as a rate. The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.

    countable · uncountable
  6. Death.

    countable · figuratively · uncountable
  7. Mortals collectively.

    archaic · countable · figuratively · uncountable
Where this word comes from

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

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