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mortalità

mortality

noun mor-tah-lee-TAH Rare
Body & Health Health & Illness

Also means

death rate

Usage Note

Mortalità ends in an accented -tà and is invariable in the plural: le mortalità has the same form as the singular. It refers to the death rate in statistical or medical contexts: tasso di mortalità (mortality rate), mortalità infantile (infant mortality). It denotes a collective or statistical concept, not a single death (morte or decesso for that).

Examples

"La mortalità infantile è diminuita negli ultimi decenni."

Natural Translation

Infant mortality has decreased in recent decades.

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