morbidity

Meaning

Noun

• The quality of being unhealthful or diseased, sometimes including the cause.
• The quality of being morbid; an attitude or state of mind marked by gloom.
• The incidence of a disease, as a rate of a population which is affected.
• An occurrence of illness or disease, or a single symptom of that illness.
• Adverse effects caused by a medical treatment such as surgery.
• The sickness rate of a population.

Related

Similar words

• morbidness
• unwholesomeness

Origin

• Recorded since 1656; from morbid, from Latin morbidus, from morbus, from the root of morī or from Proto-Indo-European *mer- ("to rub, pound, wear away").