morbidity
[mawr-bid-i-tee]
- a morbid state or quality.
- the proportion of sickness or of a specific disease in a geographical locality.
Show More
Origin of morbidity
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018
Related Words for morbidity
doldrums, malaise, foreboding, sorrow, pessimism, bitterness, weariness, grief, sadness, despair, misery, woe, discouragement, anguish, horror, distress, oppression, blues, depression, unhappinessExamples from the Web for morbidity
Contemporary Examples of morbidity
The cases share a kind of morbidity: A man, eighty, is pronounced dead after thirty minutes of CPR.
I do agree that mortality isn't everything; morbidity (poor health) matters too.
Historical Examples of morbidity
Morbidity and immorality are as natural as health and purity.
The Crack of DoomRobert Cromie
Here conscience was overdoing its part, and passing from scrupulousness to morbidity.
Double HarnessAnthony Hope
The thought embodied in it, though tinged with morbidity, striking and matured.
Regiment of WomenClemence Dane
I've never laughed at morbidity, or nerves, or insanity since.
FortitudeHugh Walpole
With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
A Chesterton CalendarG. K. Chesterton
morbidity
- the state of being morbid
- Also: morbidity rate the relative incidence of a particular disease in a specific locality
Show More
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Word Origin and History for morbidity
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
morbidity
(môr-bĭd′ĭ-tē)- The quality of being morbid.
- A diseased state.
- The incidence or prevalence of a disease.
- Morbidity rate.
Show More
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.