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conceptual system

the organization of a person’s cognitive abilities, emotional awareness, experience, and philosophical or religious orientation into a system for understanding events, data, or experience. See also cognitive structure; frame.

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mortality

mortality

n.

1. the state or condition of being subject to illness, decline, and death.

2. the death rate in a population.