noun
1. an abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind
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his fear of being alone verges on morbidity
• Syn: ↑morbidity
• Hypernyms: ↑cognitive state, ↑state of mind
2. the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you
• Syn: ↑unwholesomeness, ↑morbidity
• Ant: ↑wholesomeness (for: ↑unwholesomeness)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑morbid (for: ↑morbidity), ↑morbid, ↑unwholesome (for: ↑unwholesomeness)
• Hypernyms: ↑quality
• Hyponyms:
↑harmfulness, ↑noisomeness, ↑noxiousness, ↑perniciousness, ↑toxicity, ↑deadliness, ↑lethality, ↑jejunity, ↑jejuneness, ↑putrescence, ↑rottenness, ↑unhealthfulness
Useful english dictionary. 2012.