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 (18371920)