"morbidity" meaning in English

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Noun

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Etymology: Recorded since 1656; from morbid, from Latin morbidus (“diseased”), from morbus (“disease”), from the root of morī (“to die”) or from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to rub, pound, wear away”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*mer-|id=die}}, {{uder|en|la|morbidus||diseased}} Latin morbidus (“diseased”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*mer-||to rub, pound, wear away}} Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to rub, pound, wear away”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} morbidity (countable and uncountable, plural morbidities)
  1. The quality of being unhealthful or diseased, sometimes including the cause. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (quality of being unhealthful or diseased): xəstəlik (Azerbaijani), 病態 (Chinese Mandarin), 病态 (bìngtài) (Chinese Mandarin), morbiditeit (Dutch), ziekelijkheid (Dutch), sairaus (Finnish), sairaalloisuus (Finnish), morbidité [feminine] (French), ავადობის (avadobis) (Georgian), Morbidität [feminine] (German), νοσηρός (nosirós) [masculine] (Greek), аурушаңдық (auruşañdyq) (Kazakh), morbilidade [feminine] (Portuguese), morbiditate [feminine] (Romanian), enfermo [masculine] (Spanish), morbido (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-morbidity-en-noun-OMvThUuS Categories (other): Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 28 20 9 5 32 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 28 22 9 5 31 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 28 24 6 6 31 5 Disambiguation of 'quality of being unhealthful or diseased': 51 40 3 2 4 1
  2. The quality of being morbid; an attitude or state of mind marked by gloom. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Death Translations (quality of being morbid): synkkyys (Finnish), synkkämielisyys (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-morbidity-en-noun-y4z2~9cV Disambiguation of Death: 14 61 7 13 3 2 Categories (other): Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 28 20 9 5 32 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 28 22 9 5 31 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 28 24 6 6 31 5 Disambiguation of 'quality of being morbid': 39 56 2 1 2 0
  3. (medicine) The incidence of a disease, as a rate of a population which is affected. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Medicine Translations (incidence of a disease as a rate): заболеваемост (zabolevaemost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 发病率 (fābìnglǜ) (Chinese Mandarin), morbiditeit (Dutch), ziektecijfer (Dutch), sairastuvuus (Finnish), morbidité [feminine] (French), Morbidität [feminine] (German), תַּחְלוּאָה [feminine] (Hebrew), megbetegedési arányszám (Hungarian), morbosità [feminine] (Italian), morbilidade [feminine] (Portuguese), morbiditate [feminine] (Romanian), заболеваемость (zabolevajemostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), morbiditet (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-morbidity-en-noun-sCAiA0Tg Topics: medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'incidence of a disease as a rate': 14 11 55 8 4 9
  4. (medicine, countable) An occurrence of illness or disease, or a single symptom of that illness. Tags: countable Categories (topical): Medicine Translations (occurrence of illness or disease, or a single symptom of that illness): 发病 (fābìng) (Chinese Mandarin), morbidita [feminine] (Czech), morbiditeit (Dutch), ziekte (Dutch), ziekelijkheid (Dutch), sairastuminen (Finnish), תַּחְלוּאָה [feminine] (Hebrew), morbilidade [feminine] (Portuguese), morbiditate [feminine] (Romanian)
    Sense id: en-morbidity-en-noun-yH2Vkn38 Topics: medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'occurrence of illness or disease, or a single symptom of that illness': 3 3 3 87 1 3
  5. (medicine, countable) Adverse effects caused by a medical treatment such as surgery. Tags: countable Categories (topical): Medicine, Demography
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  6. (demography, insurance) The sickness rate of a population. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Demography, Insurance Translations (sickness rate of a population): sairastavuus (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-morbidity-en-noun-tThqmJA3 Topics: business, demographics, demography, insurance Disambiguation of 'sickness rate of a population': 2 2 13 4 1 78
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: morbidness, unwholesomeness Derived forms: comorbidity (alt: co-morbidity), hypermorbidity Related terms: morbidezza, morbidly, morbific, morbilli, soreness, valetudinarianism

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (bb46d54 and 0c3c9f6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.