EGAVE

mortality

About 18.24 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The state or quality of being mortal. The state of being susceptible to death.
  2. noun The state of being susceptible to death.
  3. noun The quality of being punishable by death.
  4. noun The quality of causing death.
  5. noun The number of deaths; and, usually and especially, the number of deaths per time unit (usually per year), expressed as a rate. Deaths resulting from an event (such as a war, epidemic or disaster). The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.
  6. noun Deaths resulting from an event (such as a war, epidemic or disaster).
  7. noun The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.
  8. noun Death.

Similar words

morbidity deathrate mortality rate lethality die dead death carnage kill toll

Often followed by

rate in rates and of from is was among

Word family

mortalities

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