Meaning

6 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The quality of being unhealthful or diseased, sometimes including the cause.

    Morbidität

    the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you

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

    an abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind

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

    Morbidität

    заболева́емостьzabolevájemostʹ

    the relative incidence of a particular disease

  4. (countable)An occurrence of illness or disease, or a single symptom of that illness.

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

  6. (countable, uncountable)The sickness rate of a population.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
incidence of a disease as a rate:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
quality of being unhealthful or diseased:

Origin

Recorded since 1721; from morbid + -ity, from Latin morbidus (“diseased”), from morbus (“d

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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Forms

plural: morbidities
Singularmorbidity
Pluralmorbidities

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

17 related words

See also

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