morbid
adjective
suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc..
morbidness
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a word derived from
morbid.
Example Sentences
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Its moral earnestness and stern purpose keep it from the obvious morbidness and distasteful pictures its plot inevitably suggests.
From Time Magazine Archive
An early over-strain of our powers often leaves behind it lasting distortion or weakness, and a sad childhood introduces into the character elements of morbidness and bitterness that will not disappear.
From The Map of Life Conduct and Character by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
There was certainly nothing in the atmosphere of the Grange to foster any tendency towards morbidness.
From A Fourth Form Friendship A School Story by Angela Brazil
He had in his character a Stuart strain of sensitiveness, amounting to morbidness.
From Rupert Prince Palatine by Eva Scott
In the medicine of Nature a chronic and abiding disquietude or morbidness of temperament is often cured by some keen though more transient sorrow which violently changes the current of our thoughts and imaginations.
From The Map of Life Conduct and Character by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
