English noun: morbidity |
1. | morbidity the relative incidence of a particular disease |
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| Broader (hypernym) | incidence, relative incidence |
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2. | morbidity (cognition) an abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind |
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| Samples | His fear of being alone verges on morbidity.
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| Synonyms | morbidness |
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| Broader (hypernym) | cognitive state, state of mind |
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3. | morbidity (attribute) the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you |
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| Synonyms | morbidness, unwholesomeness |
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| Broader (hypernym) | quality |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | deadliness, harmfulness, jejuneness, jejunity, lethality, noisomeness, noxiousness, perniciousness, putrescence, rottenness, toxicity, unhealthfulness |
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| Antonyms | wholesomeness |
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