mortality
noun, plural mor·tal·i·ties.
Origin of mortality
Related Words for mortality
fatality, bloodshed, dying, deadliness, killing, lethality, extinction, carnage, destruction, flesh, being, humankind, humanity, transience, ephemerality, impermanence, temporalityExamples from the Web for mortality
Contemporary Examples of mortality
With a mortality rate of 70 percent, the more cases that arise, the deadlier this epidemic becomes.
And at the time he wrote that letter, Derek was also conscious of his own mortality.
His beloved collie-shepherd Honey died of cancer this summer, which made Cumming think about his own mortality.
Among medical personnel, there were 416 confirmed cases and 233 deaths, a mortality rate of more than 56 percent.
“With a mortality rate at about 60 percent, there is a great chance that they will live,” he continued.
The Only Thing More Terrifying Than Ebola Is Being Pregnant With EbolaKent Sepkowitz, Abby Haglage
October 2, 2014
Historical Examples of mortality
Pass on, with your burden of mortality, And lay it in the tomb with jolly hearts.
Main StreetNathaniel Hawthorne
Our provisions were very bad, and the mortality among us was great.
Ned MyersJames Fenimore Cooper
How altered and defaced by the putrifying touch of mortality!
Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. IFrancis Augustus Cox
The mortality among the officers and men has been in proportion.
Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, CompleteLewis Goldsmith
The mortality might have been higher than it was but for Peter Blood.
Captain BloodRafael Sabatini