morbidity
[ mawr-bid-i-tee ]
/ mɔrˈbɪd ɪ ti /
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noun
a morbid state or quality.
the proportion of sickness or of a specific disease in a geographical locality.
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How to use morbidity in a sentence
Over and above all such morbidities was the fact that Kitty was looking at him with the eyes of a frightened child—a real child.
She trusted his affection, respected his cleverness, and instinctively guessed at his vanities and morbidities.
Old Kensington|Miss ThackerayThey are shocked by the morbidities of Dostoievsky and Strindberg.
The Literature of Ecstasy|Albert Mordell
British Dictionary definitions for morbidity
morbidity
/ (mɔːˈbɪdɪtɪ) /
noun
the state of being morbid
Also: morbidity rate the relative incidence of a particular disease in a specific locality
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