MORBIDNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does morbidness mean? 

• MORBIDNESS (noun)
  The noun MORBIDNESS has 2 senses:

1. an abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind

2. the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you

  Familiarity information: MORBIDNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MORBIDNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

morbidity; morbidness

Context example:

his fear of being alone verges on morbidity

Hypernyms ("morbidness" is a kind of...):

cognitive state; state of mind (the state of a person's cognitive processes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

morbidity; morbidness; unwholesomeness

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)