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morbidity.

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

9 characters4 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

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

    countable · uncountable
  2. The quality of being morbid; an attitude or state of mind marked by gloom.

    countable · uncountable
  3. The incidence of a disease, as a rate of a population which is affected.

    countable · uncountable
  4. An occurrence of illness or disease, or a single symptom of that illness.

    countable
  5. Adverse effects caused by a medical treatment such as surgery.

    countable
  6. The sickness rate of a population.

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

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”).

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