morbidity

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being morbid.

Morbid quality; disease; sickness.

Amount of disease; sick rate.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

morbidness unwholesomeness blue devils death disease blues depression diabetes disorder illness mortality burden incidence distress complaint
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Antonyms

principle hope confidence nobility integrity morality
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Hypernyms

quality incidence state of mind cognitive state relative incidence

Hyponyms

lethality harmfulness putrescence rottenness deadliness noxiousness

Phrases with the word

morbidity rates child morbidity

Examples

For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates, and their children are more likely to die in infancy. Esther Duflo

The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does not merely stagnate; the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity and despair, and eventually into destructive activities. Rollo May

Susan had an earnest soul, a conscience tending to morbidity. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die. Brian Sibley

Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals. Lois Capps

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. G. K. Chesterton

Close letter words and terms

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