infant mortality

Questions about infant mortality

What is another word for infant mortality?

It depends which infant mortality you mean. In the sense “the death rate during the first year of life”, the synonyms are infant deathrate, infant mortality rate. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of infant mortality?

WordNet records no antonym for infant mortality. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for infant mortality come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of infant mortality

• Full entry for infant mortalityAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for infant mortalityWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.