Definitions for morbidity

morbidity mor·bid·i·ty

Spelling: [mawr-bid-i-tee]
IPA: /mɔrˈbɪd ɪ ti/

Morbidity is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 241 anagrams from letters in morbidity (bdiimorty).

Definitions for morbidity

noun

  1. a morbid state or quality.
  2. the proportion of sickness or of a specific disease in a geographical locality.

Origin of morbidity

First recorded in 1715-25; morbid + -ity

Examples for morbidity

The thought embodied in it, though tinged with morbidity, striking and matured.

Does he perhaps do so because they cannot in any way be made to square with his theory of morbidity?

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

Krafft-Ebing asserts that hardly any of these Urnings are conscious of morbidity.

The cases share a kind of morbidity: A man, eighty, is pronounced dead after thirty minutes of CPR.

I've never laughed at morbidity, or nerves, or insanity since.

morbidity and immorality are as natural as health and purity.

I do agree that mortality isn't everything; morbidity (poor health) matters too.

Here conscience was overdoing its part, and passing from scrupulousness to morbidity.

He has none of the morbidity that often passes for refinement.

Word Value for morbidity
Scrable

17

Words with friends

18

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