morbidity
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- n the relative incidence of a particular disease
- n an abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind
his fear of being alone verges on morbidity - n the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you
- Morbidity means the number of sick, mortality the number of dead.
- Though his subject matter was grisly, Carr maintained that "morbidity has nothing to do with it, any more than with solving chess or mathematics problems.
- And it's that, you know, that sense of morbidity that people do have.