mortality

Other forms of mortality

plural

mortalities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mortality

What does mortality mean?

mortality means "the quality or state of being mortal". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mortality?

mortality has 4 syllables: mor-tal-i-ty. The stress falls on "tal". In IPA it is /mɔɹˈtæləti/.

What is another word for mortality?

Close synonyms include deathrate, death rate, mortality rate, fatality rate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of mortality?

The recorded antonyms are immortality.

Is mortality a common word?

mortality is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with mortality?

5 words rhyme with mortality. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.