'Morbidity' definitions:
Definition of 'morbidity'
(from WordNet)
noun
The relative incidence of a particular disease
noun
An abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind; "his fear of being alone verges on morbidity" [syn: morbidity, morbidness]
noun
The quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you [syn: unwholesomeness, morbidness, morbidity] [ant: wholesomeness]
Definition of 'Morbidity'
From: GCIDE
- Morbidity \Mor*bid"i*ty\, n.
- 1. The quality or state of being morbid. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Morbid quality; disease; sickness. --C. Kingsley. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Amount of disease; rate of sickness. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'morbidity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abnormality,
- acute disease,
- affection,
- affliction,
- ailment,
- allergic disease,
- allergy,
- atrophy,
- bacterial disease,
- birth defect,
- blight,
- cachexia,
- cachexy,
- cardiovascular disease,
- chronic disease,
- chronic ill health,
- circulatory disease,
- complaint,
- complication,
- condition,
- congenital defect,
- debilitation,
- debility,
- decrepitude,
- defect,
- deficiency disease,
- deformity,
- degenerative disease,
- delicacy,
- delicate health,
- disability,
- disease,
- disorder,
- distemper,
- endemic,
- endemic disease,
- endocrine disease,
- enervation,
- epidemic disease,
- exhaustion,
- feebleness,
- fragility,
- frailty,
- functional disease,
- fungus disease,
- gastrointestinal disease,
- genetic disease,
- handicap,
- healthlessness,
- hereditary disease,
- hypochondria,
- hypochondriasis,
- iatrogenic disease,
- ill health,
- illness,
- indisposition,
- infectious disease,
- infirmity,
- invalidism,
- invalidity,
- languishing,
- languishment,
- malady,
- malaise,
- morbidness,
- morbus,
- muscular disease,
- neurological disease,
- nutritional disease,
- occupational disease,
- organic disease,
- pandemic disease,
- pathological condition,
- pathology,
- peakedness,
- plant disease,
- poor health,
- protozoan disease,
- psychosomatic disease,
- respiratory disease,
- rockiness,
- secondary disease,
- seediness,
- sickishness,
- sickliness,
- sickness,
- signs,
- symptomatology,
- symptomology,
- symptoms,
- syndrome,
- the pip,
- unhealthiness,
- unsoundness,
- unwholesomeness,
- urogenital disease,
- valetudinarianism,
- virus disease,
- wasting,
- wasting disease,
- weakliness,
- worm disease