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morbidity

In medicine, a term used to describe the condition of being diseased. The number of times a disease occurs within a particular number of the population is the morbidity rate of that disease.



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They did all they could to divert me from this morbidity.
The War Of The Worlds by Wells, H.G. View in context
He sees thousands of Mrs MacNabs, in thousands of houses, dropping their little drop of morbidity in the tea-cups of their friends; he sees--"
The Wisdom Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
He forgot for the moment his maxim of life to follow his inclinations with due regard for the policeman round the corner; or, if he acted in accordance with it, there must have been some strange morbidity in his nature which made him take a grim pleasure in self-torture.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
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