mortality
/mɔɹˈtælɪti/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.90 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The number of deaths; and, usually and especially, the number of deaths per time unit (usually per year), expressed as a rate.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "[H]er minde remembreth her mortalitie, / vvhat ſo is fayreſt ſhall to earth returne."
- "Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, / But sad mortality o’er-sways their power, / How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, / Whose action is no stronger than a flower?"
- "1714, Alexander Pope, letter to John Gay in Letters of Mr. Pope, and Several Eminent Persons, London, 1735, Volume 2, p. 208, I have been perpetually troubled with sickness of late, which has made me so melancholy that the Immortality of the Soul has been my constant Speculation, as the Mortality of my Body my constant Plague."
- "“[…] Thy sense is clogg’d with dull mortality; / They spirit fetter’d with the bond of clay: / Open thine eyes and see.”"
- "But on that onerous day [of the funeral], oppressed beyond relief, my own mortality was borne in upon me on sluggish tides of doom."
- "[…] actions of Charity do alleviate, as I may say, and take off from the Mortality of the Sin."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /mɔɹˈtælɪti/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
attritional mortality
bill of mortality
catastrophic mortality
infant mortality
maternal mortality
mortality table
Frequently Paired Words
Synonyms
deadliness
lethality
w:mortality rate
MR
death rate
DR
fatality
quietus
death
end
tomb
celestial transfer