Morbidity

Quick meaning: Morbidity is a noun meaning The quality of being unhealthful or diseased, sometimes including the cause.

Meaning

The quality of being unhealthful or diseased, sometimes including the cause.

More Meanings

1. The quality of being morbid; an attitude or state of mind marked by gloom.
2. (medicine) The incidence of a disease, as a rate of a population which is affected.
3. (medicine, countable) An occurrence of illness or disease, or a single symptom of that illness.
4. (medicine, countable) Adverse effects caused by a medical treatment such as surgery.
5. (demography, insurance) The sickness rate of a population.

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

• morbidities

Synonyms for morbidity

Depending on context, synonyms include morbidness, unwholesomeness, mortality, deathrate.

Antonyms for morbidity

Common opposites include wholesomeness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include morbidness, unwholesomeness, mortality, deathrate, malaise, illness.

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