morbidness
- n an abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind
- n the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you
- But nothing seems to match 1975's dedication to martial morbidness.
- Its moral earnestness and stern purpose keep it from the obvious morbidness and distasteful pictures its plot inevitably suggests.
- What redeems these diaries from sheer morbidness is Kafka's herculean determination to find health and purpose in his writing.