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MORBIDNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you
Synonyms:
morbidity; morbidness; unwholesomeness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("morbidness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "morbidness"):
harmfulness; noisomeness; noxiousness (the quality of being noxious)
perniciousness; toxicity (grave harmfulness or deadliness)
deadliness; lethality (the quality of being deadly)
putrescence; rottenness (the quality of rotting and becoming putrid)
unhealthfulness (the quality of promoting poor health)
Derivation:
morbid (suggesting an unhealthy mental state)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind
Example:
his fear of being alone verges on morbidity
Synonyms:
morbidity; morbidness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("morbidness" is a kind of...):
cognitive state; state of mind (the state of a person's cognitive processes)
