26984 words

mortality

4 definitions • 5 examples
1
the way that people do not live for ever:

Examples:

Her death made him more aware of his own mortality.
2

Examples:

the mortality rate
Infant mortality is much higher in the poorest areas of the city.
3
the condition of being mortal:

Examples:

A sense of her own mortality overcame her.
4
Mortality is also the number of deaths within a particular society and within a particular period of time:

Examples:

infant mortality

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