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morbidities

morbidities is the plural of morbidity.

Meaning of morbidity

Noun

morbidity (countable and uncountable, plural morbidities)

  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. The incidence of a disease, as a rate of a population which is affected.
  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. The sickness rate of a population.

Questions about morbidities

What is morbidities the plural of?
Morbidities is the plural of morbidity.

Words near morbidities in the dictionary

  1. morbid obesity
  2. morbid owlet
  3. morbider
  4. morbidest
  5. morbidezza
  6. morbidities
  7. morbidity
  8. morbidize
  9. morbidized
  10. morbidizes
  11. morbidizing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: morbidities (page history and authors); morbidity (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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