mortality

mortality
n
1. mortalness, temporalness, temporality; impermanence, transientness, transitoriness, temporariness; ephemeralness, fugaciousness, fugaci-ty; evanescence, momentariness, perishability, caducity, volatility, volatileness; humanness, vulnerability, fallibility, susceptibility, corruptibility, weakness.
2. humanity, earthlings, tellurians, terrene dwellers; mortals, all flesh, the human race, Homo sapiens, man, mankind; people, folk, persons, society; all individuals, all souls, all human creatures, Rare. death-lings.
3. death rate, number of deaths, death frequency, Inf. body count.
4. death, destruction, genocide, mass murder; holocaust, massacre, saturnalia of blood; epidemic, pandemia, pestilence, pest, plague.

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