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morbidity

morbidity noun: the quality of being unhealthful or diseased, sometimes including the cause.

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.

morbidity meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Kannada

morbidity in Tamil

நோய்ப்பாதிப்பு, நோயுற்ற விகிதம், நோய்ப் பாதித்த அளவு, நோயுற்ற அளவு, நலம் குன்றிய

morbidity in Urdu

غم شیفتگی, افسردہ دلی, بیماری, مردہ دلی, نڈھال پن, روگ

morbidity in Bengali

অসুস্থতা, ব্যাধিগ্রস্ত অবস্থা

morbidity in Kannada

ರೋಗದ ಹರಡುವಿಕೆ, ರೋಗದ ವ್ಯಾಪನೆ, ಮಾನಸಿಕ ಅಸ್ವಸ್ಥತೆ

Examples of morbidity in a sentence

  • Unfortunately, blind placement too frequently results in trauma and is a source of significant morbidity and mortality.
  • Even his most matter-of-fact, workmanlike paintings are charged with an entirely personal morbidity.
  • Another tabula represents the rate of morbidity according to different organs and age groups.

All 11 example sentences with morbidity

Synonyms of morbidity

Forms of morbidity

pluralmorbidities

Plural of morbidity: morbidities

Origin of morbidity

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”).

Words formed from morbidity

Questions about morbidity

What does morbidity mean?
Morbidity means the quality of being unhealthful or diseased, sometimes including the cause.
What is morbidity in Tamil?
Morbidity in Tamil is நோய்ப்பாதிப்பு, நோயுற்ற விகிதம், நோய்ப் பாதித்த அளவு. See Morbidity meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is morbidity?
Morbidity is a noun.
What is the plural of morbidity?
The plural of morbidity is morbidities.

Words near morbidity in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: morbidity (page history and authors); morbidity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); morbidity (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Morbidity (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); morbidity (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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