Human vs. Mortal — What's the Difference?

Humans (Homo sapiens) are the most abundant and widespread species of primates, characterized by bipedality and large, complex brains enabling the development of advanced tools, culture and language. Humans are highly social beings and tend to live in complex social structures composed of many cooperating and competing groups, from families and kinship networks to political states.

Liable or subject to death; not immortal

Relating to or characteristic of humankind

Of or relating to humans as being subject to death

A human being.

Causing death; fatal

A member of the primate genus Homo, especially a member of the species Homo sapiens, distinguished from other apes by a large brain and the capacity for speech.

Fought to the death

A person

Relentlessly hostile; implacable

Of, relating to, or characteristic of humans

Of great intensity or severity; dire

Having or showing those positive aspects of nature and character regarded as distinguishing humans from other animals

Conceivable; imaginable

Subject to or indicative of the weaknesses, imperfections, and fragility associated with humans

Used as an intensive

Having the form of a human.

A human.

Made up of humans

Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.

(notcomp) Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives.

Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).

(comparable) Having the nature or attributes of a human being.

By death.

(narrowly) The tallest, most abundant and most intelligent of primates; Homo sapiens.

Vulnerable.

(broadly) Any hominid of the genus Homo.

Of or relating to the time of death.

(rare) To behave as or become, or to cause to behave as or become, a human.

As if with power to kill; deathly.

Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human voice; human shape; human nature; human sacrifices.

; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.

A human being.

Very painful or tedious; wearisome.

A human being;

Very drunk.

Any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae

(religion) Of a sin: involving the penalty of spiritual death, rather than merely venial.

Characteristic of humanity;

A human; someone susceptible to death.

Relating to a person;

(colloquial) Mortally; enough to cause death.

Having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings;

Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.

Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a mortal wound; a mortal sin.

Fatally vulnerable; vital.

Of or pertaining to the time of death.

Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.

Human; belonging to man, who is mortal; as, mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power.

Very painful or tedious; wearisome; as, a sermon lasting two mortal hours.

A being subject to death; a human being; man.

A human being;

Subject to death;

Involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death;

Unrelenting and deadly;

Causing or capable of causing death;