mortality Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun the quality or state of being mortal
noun the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year
fatality rate; deathrate; mortality rate; death rate.

L. mortalitas: cf. F. mortalité.

The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying.
When I saw her die, I then did think on your mortality. Carew.
Human life; the life of a mortal being.
From this instant There 's nothing serious in mortality. Shak.
Those who are, or that which is, mortal; the human cace; humanity; human nature.
Take these tears, mortality's relief. Pope.
Death; destruction. Shak.
The whole sum or number of deaths in a given time or a given community; also, the proportion of deaths to population, or to a specific number of the population; death rate; as, a time of great, or low, mortality; the mortality among the settlers was alarming.