Morality vs. Mortality — What's the Difference?

Morality (from Latin: moralitas, lit. 'manner, character, proper behavior') is the differentiation of intentions, decisions and actions between those that are distinguished as proper (right) and those that are improper (wrong). Morality can be a body of standards or principles derived from a code of conduct from a particular philosophy, religion or culture, or it can derive from a standard that a person believes should be universal.

The quality or condition of being mortal.

The quality of being in accord with standards of right or good conduct

Mortals considered as a group; the human race.

A system or collection of ideas of right and wrong conduct

Death, especially of large numbers; heavy loss of life

Virtuous conduct

Death rate.

A rule or lesson in moral conduct

The rate of failure or loss

(uncountable) Recognition of the distinction between good and evil or between right and wrong; respect for and obedience to the rules of right conduct; the mental disposition or characteristic of behaving in a manner intended to produce morally good results.

The state or quality of being mortal.

(countable) A set of social rules, customs, traditions, beliefs, or practices which specify proper, acceptable forms of conduct.

The state of being susceptible to death.

(countable) A set of personal guiding principles for conduct or a general notion of how to behave, whether respectable or not.

(archaic) The quality of being punishable by death.

A lesson or pronouncement which contains advice about proper behavior.

(archaic) The quality of causing death.

(countable) A morality play.

The number of deaths; and, usually and especially, the number of deaths per time unit (usually per year), expressed as a rate.

Moral philosophy, the branch of philosophy which studies the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, good, and evil.

Deaths resulting from an event (such as a war, epidemic or disaster).

A particular theory concerning the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, good, and evil.

The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.

The relation of conformity or nonconformity to the moral standard or rule; quality of an intention, a character, an action, a principle, or a sentiment, when tried by the standard of right.

(figuratively) Death.

The quality of an action which renders it good; the conformity of an act to the accepted standard of right.

Mortals collectively.

The doctrines or rules of moral duties, or the duties of men in their social character; ethics.

The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying.

The practice of the moral duties; rectitude of life; conformity to the standard of right; virtue; as, we often admire the politeness of men whose morality we question.

Human life; the life of a mortal being.

A kind of allegorical play, so termed because it consisted of discourses in praise of morality between actors representing such characters as Charity, Faith, Death, Vice, etc. Such plays were occasionally exhibited as late as the reign of Henry VIII.

Those who are, or that which is, mortal; the human race; humanity; human nature.

Intent; meaning; moral.

Death; destruction.

Concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct

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.

Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong

The quality or state of being mortal

The ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year