mortality
noun
[ mɔːˈtalɪti ]
• the state of being subject to death.
• "the work is increasingly haunted by thoughts of mortality"
Similar:
impermanence,
temporality,
transience,
ephemerality,
impermanency,
perishability,
humanity,
corporeality,
earthliness,
corporality,
• death, especially on a large scale.
• "the causes of mortality among infants and young children"
Origin:
late Middle English: via Old French from Latin mortalitas, from mortalis (see mortal).
