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# mortality

«mortality» in Mova's school dictionary: **the fact that every living thing will one day die** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (mortality — uncountable; mortalities — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Mortality is the fact that every living thing will one day die. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortality/#m1)

2) Mortality is also the number of deaths in a group or a place over a time, often called the mortality rate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortality/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science, history and geography, «infant mortality» (babies dying young) fell a lot because of clean water and vaccines. In religion, ethics and stories, mortality means thinking about life being short. Common phrases: «infant mortality», «mortality rate», «human mortality», «face your own mortality».

### examples

- Infant mortality was very high in Victorian times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortality/#x1)
- Vaccines lowered the mortality rate from measles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortality/#x2)
- Seeing the old tree fall made Grandpa think about his own mortality. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortality/#x3)
- Mortality among the young birds was high in the cold spring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortality/#x4)
- Doctors study mortality to find which illnesses are most dangerous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortality/#x5)
- Christians believe that Jesus' resurrection gives hope beyond mortality. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortality/#x6)

### note

Mostly uncountable. The opposite is «immortality» (living for ever). Adjective: «mortal». In maths, a mortality rate is usually given as a number per 1000 people or as a percentage.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mortality» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortality/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.