MORBIDNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you

Synonyms:

morbidity; morbidness; unwholesomeness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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)

Meaning:

An abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind

Example:

his fear of being alone verges on morbidity

Synonyms:

morbidity; morbidness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

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