mortality

Pronunciation: /mɔɹˈtælɪti/

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun the quality or state of being mortal
  2. noun the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year

Etymology

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

In classic literature

Semantic network

Broader (hypernyms)
impermanence
Opposite (antonyms)
immortality

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