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morbosity

morbosity noun: a diseased state; unhealthiness.

Noun

morbosity (countable and uncountable, plural morbosities)

  1. A diseased state; unhealthiness.
    • For as the inference is fair, affirmatively deduced from the action to the organ, that they have eies because they see; so it is also from the organ to the action, that they have eies, therefore some sight designed; if we take the intention of Nature in every species, and except the casuall...1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica
  2. a morbid feature

Forms of morbosity

pluralmorbosities

Origin of morbosity

Latin morbositas.

Questions about morbosity

What does morbosity mean?
Morbosity means a diseased state; unhealthiness.
What part of speech is morbosity?
Morbosity is a noun.
What is the plural of morbosity?
The plural of morbosity is morbosities.

Words near morbosity in the dictionary

  1. morbillous
  2. morbimortality
  3. Morborne
  4. morbose
  5. morbosities
  6. morbosity
  7. morbs
  8. morbus
  9. morbus coxarius
  10. morbus cyclometricus
  11. morbus Dupuytren

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