mortality

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

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

From Old French mortalite, from Latin mortālitās, from mortālis (“relating to death”), from mors (“death”); equivalent to mortal + -ity.

There is nothing serious in mortality! — The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
Mortality itself, sir, is a wisitation. — Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens
Beneath the social mortality, we feel human imperishableness. — Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

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