MORTALITY

[noun] [U] [formal]A sense of her own mortality (= the fact that she, like all living creatures, would die) overcame her.Compare immortality at immortal.(formal) Mortality is also the number of deaths within a particular society and within a particular period of time.A clean water supply played a large part in reducing mortality/the mortality rate.Infant mortality/The infant-mortality rate is much higher in the poorest areas of the city.