The quality or state of being mortal.

Roget 360: death; decease, demise; dissolution, departure, obit, release, rest, quietus, fall; loss, bereavement; mortality, morbidity.    end of life etc. 67, cessation of life etc. 142, loss of life, extinction of life, ebb of life etc. 359.    death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed; stroke of death, agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death; last breath, last gasp, last agonies; dying day, dying breath, dying agonies; chant du cygne [Fr.]; rigor mortis [Lat.]; Stygian shore.    King of terrors, King Death; Death; doom etc. (necessity) 601; Hell's grim Tyrant" [Pope]. euthanasia; break up of the system; natural death, natural decay; sudden death, violent death; untimely end, watery grave; debt of nature; suffocation, asphyxia; fatal disease etc. (disease) 655; death blow etc. (killing) 361.    necrology, bills of mortality, obituary; death song etc. (lamentation) 839.    ... show more

Roget 372: man, mankind; human race, human species, human kind, human nature; humanity, mortality, flesh, generation.    [Science of man] anthropology, anthropogeny^†, anthropography^†, anthroposophy^†; ethnology, ethnography; humanitarian.    human being; person, personage; individual, creature, fellow creature, mortal, body, somebody; one; such a one, some one; soul, living soul; earthling; party, head, hand; dramatis personae [Lat.]; quidam [Lat.].    people, persons, folk, public, society, world; community, community at large; general public; nation, nationality; state, realm; commonweal, commonwealth; republic, body politic; million etc. (commonalty) 876; population etc. (inhabitant) 188.    tribe, clan (paternity) 166; family (consanguinity) 11.    cosmopolite; lords of the creation; ourselves.    ... show more

Roget 111: transience, transientness etc. adj.^†; evanescence, impermanence, fugacity [Chem], caducity^†, mortality, span; nine days' wonder, bubble, Mayfly; spurt; flash in the pan; temporary arrangement, interregnum.    velocity etc. 274; suddenness etc. 113; changeableness etc. 149.    transient, transient boarder, transient guest [U.S.].    ... show more

Polish: śmiertelność

The ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year.

synonyms: death rate, deathrate, fatality rate, mortality rate.

Dutch: sterfte, mortaliteit, mortaliteitscoëfficiënt, sterftecijfer
Polish: śmiertelność, umieralność