morbidities
morbidities is the plural of morbidity.
Meaning of morbidity
Noun
morbidity (countable and uncountable, plural morbidities)
- The quality of being unhealthful or diseased, sometimes including the cause.
- 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
- The incidence of a disease, as a rate of a population which is affected.
- An occurrence of illness or disease, or a single symptom of that illness.
- Adverse effects caused by a medical treatment such as surgery.
- 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
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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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