Mortality

Mortality is the state of being mortal, or susceptible to death; the opposite of immortality.

It may also refer to:

  • Mortality rate, a measure of the number of deaths in a given population
  • Case mortality rate, a measure of the number of deaths among a set of diagnosed hospital illness or injury cases
  • Mortality displacement, denotes a (forward) temporal shift in the rate of mortality
  • Mortality drag, a term to describe a negative impact that is experienced when an annuity purchase is delayed
  • Mortality (band), a thrash metal band from Sydney, Australia
  • Mortality (computability theory), a property of a Turing machine if it halts when run on any starting configuration
  • Mortality, differential attrition between groups in a scientific study
  • Mortality (book), a 2012 collection of essays by Anglo-American writer Christopher Hitchens

Mortal may refer to:

  • Human, as distinct from a supernatural being
  • Mortal (band), a Christian industrial band
  • Mortal Kombat, a fighting game series

Famous quotes containing the word mortality:

    “The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.”
    —William Dean Howells (1837–1920)

    “Antiquity breached mortality with myths.
    Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates
    A cornice on the Third National Bank.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)