morbidity
The quality of being unhealthful or diseased, sometimes including the causeThe quality of being unhealthful or diseased, sometimes including the cause.
Meaning
6 senses(countable, uncountable)The quality of being unhealthful or diseased, sometimes including the cause.
Morbidität
the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you
(countable, uncountable)The quality of being morbid; an attitude or state of mind marked by gloom.
an abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind
(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
(countable)An occurrence of illness or disease, or a single symptom of that illness.
(countable)Adverse effects caused by a medical treatment such as surgery.
(countable, uncountable)The sickness rate of a population.
Translations
6 languagesBy meaning 1
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Origin
Recorded since 1721; from morbid + -ity, from Latin morbidus (“diseased”), from morbus (“dRecorded 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| Singular | morbidity |
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Synonyms
2 synonyms- an abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind:morbidness
- the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you:unwholesomenessmorbidness
Word family
17 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable