morbidity

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The quality of being unhealthful or diseased, sometimes including the cause.
2. (countable, uncountable) The quality of being morbid; an attitude or state of mind marked by gloom.
3. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) The sickness rate of a population.

Synonyms

morbidness

sickness rate

unwholesomeness

disease incidence

disease

unhalthiness

unhealthiness

insalubrity

incidence

morbidity rate

diseased state

disease rate

unhealthfulness

disease occurrence

disease prevalence

insalubriousness

jejunity

unsanitariness

incidence of disease

ailment

morbidity ratio

attack

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decomposition

gloom

illness

incidence rate

jejuneness

malady

unsoundness

valetudinarianism

Translations

morbidité

Morbidität

morbiditeit

morbosidad

morbilità

morbosità

ziekelijkheid

morbilidad

morbidade

ziektecijfer

Erkrankungsrate

مراضة

morbositat

νοσηρότητα

Etymology

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”).