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Morbidity   Listen
noun
Morbidity  n.  
1.
The quality or state of being morbid.
2.
Morbid quality; disease; sickness.
3.
Amount of disease; rate of sickness.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Morbidity" Quotes from Famous Books



... is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it. Baudelaire calls laughter the greatest sign of the Satanic element in man; and where a country loses its humor, as some towns in Ireland are doing, there will be morbidity of mind, as Baude- laire's mind was morbid. In the greater part of Ireland, however, the whole people, from the tinkers to the clergy, have still a life, ...
— The Tinker's Wedding • J. M. Synge

... I read novels written by those who never had any religious faith or who have lost it, novels that describe religious training in the home as producing unhappiness and hypocrisy and morbidity, the atmosphere one of thick gloom. As I look back on my childhood, it seems to me that our house was full of laughter. Table conversation was enlivened with mirth. If there ever was a merry household, it was ours. Our daily existence was full of fun, and Christmas, New Years, Fourth ...
— The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book • Various

... malady, ailment, complaint, disorder, distemper, morbidity, indisposition, invalidism, disease. Associated words: morbidity, morbific, malinger, malingerer, malingery, decumbiture, convalescent, convalescence, relapse, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

... literary work, and chiefly works of art, issued from sound, human, healthy, and potent impulses, whether grave or laughing, humorous, romantic, or religious. Yet it cannot be denied that some valuable books are partially insane; some, mostly religious, partially inhuman; and very many tainted with morbidity and impotence. We do not loathe a masterpiece although we gird against its blemishes. We are not, above all, to look for faults but merits. There is no book perfect, even in design; but there are many that will delight, improve, ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson



Words linked to "Morbidity" :   unhealthfulness, jejunity, rottenness, noisomeness, morbid, putrescence, noxiousness, cognitive state, incidence, state of mind, relative incidence, lethality, wholesomeness, quality, deadliness, perniciousness



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