morbidity
nounEtymology 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”).
1
The quality of being unhealthful or diseased, sometimes including the cause.
2
The quality of being morbid; an attitude or state of mind marked by gloom.
- 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.1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
3
Medicine, Sciences The incidence of a disease, as a rate of a population which is affected.
4
Medicine, Sciences An occurrence of illness or disease, or a single symptom of that illness.
5
Medicine, Sciences Adverse effects caused by a medical treatment such as surgery.
- Synonyms
- morbidness, unwholesomeness
- Derived terms
- comorbidity, cytomorbidity, hypermorbidity, monomorbidity, morbimortality, multimorbidity, neuromorbidity, nonmorbidity, polymorbidity, postmorbidity, premorbidity
- Related terms
- morbidezza, morbidly, morbific, morbilli, soreness, valetudinarianism