mortality

/mɔrˈtælɪti/

中文释义来自 ECDICT

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后缀

-ity: Used to form an uncountable noun from an adjective; especially, to form the noun referring to the state, property, or quality of conforming to the adjective's description. · Used to form a countable noun from an adjective, referring to someone or something that conforms to the adjective's description.

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

1The state or quality of being mortal.
2The number of deaths; and, usually and especially, the number of deaths per time unit (usually per year), expressed as a rate.
3figurativelyDeath.
4figuratively, archaicMortals collectively.