morbidness

mor·bid

 (môr′bĭd)

adj.

1. Given to or characterized by unwholesome thoughts or feelings, especially of death or disease: read the account of the murder with a morbid interest.

2.

a. Of, relating to, or caused by disease; pathological or diseased: morbid changes in tissues.

b. Psychologically unhealthy or unwholesome: a morbid fear of heights.

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

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mor′bid·ly adv.

mor′bid·ness n.

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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

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