Morbidness

mor·bid  (môrbd)

adj.

1.

a. Of, relating to, or caused by disease; pathological or diseased.

b. Psychologically unhealthy or unwholesome: "He suffered much from a morbid acuteness of the senses" (Edgar Allan Poe).

2. Characterized by preoccupation with unwholesome thoughts or feelings: read the account of the murder with a morbid interest.

3. Gruesome; grisly.

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[Latin morbidus, diseased, from morbus, disease; see mer- in Indo-European roots.]

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morbid·ly adv.

morbid·ness n.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	morbidness - an abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind; "his fear of being alone verges on morbidity" morbidity cognitive state, state of mind - the state of a person's cognitive processes
	2.	morbidness - the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you unwholesomeness, morbidity quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare noisomeness, noxiousness, harmfulness - the quality of being noxious perniciousness, toxicity - grave harmfulness or deadliness deadliness, lethality - the quality of being deadly jejunity, jejuneness - quality of lacking nutritive value putrescence, rottenness - the quality of rotting and becoming putrid unhealthfulness - the quality of promoting poor health