mortality
The state or quality of being mortal.
Other meanings
The state of being susceptible to death.
The number of deaths; and, usually and especially, the number of deaths per time unit (usually per year), expressed as a .
Related words
- submortality
- attritional mortality
- bill of mortality
- catastrophic mortality
- hypermortality
- infant mortality
- maternal mortality
- morbimortality
- mortality table
- natimortality
- overmortality
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “mortality” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.