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Morbidity

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being unhealthful or diseased, sometimes including the cause. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you wordnet
  3. 3
    The quality of being morbid; an attitude or state of mind marked by gloom. countable, uncountable

    "He taught him how to be superior to human foibles and how to give a godlike laugh at himself as a way of fending off morbidity. He did all the things for him that a woman is grateful for, except that Magnus is a man."

  4. 4
    an abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind wordnet
  5. 5
    The incidence of a disease, as a rate of a population which is affected. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    the relative incidence of a particular disease wordnet
  2. 7
    An occurrence of illness or disease, or a single symptom of that illness. countable
  3. 8
    Adverse effects caused by a medical treatment such as surgery. countable
  4. 9
    The sickness rate of a population. countable, uncountable

Etymology

Recorded since 1721; from morbid + -ity, from Latin morbidus (“diseased”), from morbus (“disease”), from the root of morī (“to die”) or from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to rub, pound, wear away”).

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