Mortality

1. n. The whole sum or number of deaths in a given time or a given community; also, the proportion of deaths to population, or to a specific number of the population; death rate; as, a time of great, or low, mortality; the mortality among the settlers was alarming.
2. n. The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying.
3. n. Human life; the life of a mortal being.
4. n. Those who are, or that which is, mortal; the human cace; humanity; human nature.
5. n. Death; destruction.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.