| 单词 | morbidity |
| 释义 | morbidity (once / 22093 pages) n The noun morbidity means "the quality of being unhealthful." If you can't watch your sister's morbidity get any worse, you might sign her up with a nutritionist and a personal trainer. Morbidity comes from the word morbid, which means "or of relating to disease," like the number of cases of any disease in an areas — morbidity rates for polio that plummeted in the 20th century. Morbidity can also mean "fixated on death or having an abnormally gloomy state of mind," like the increasing morbidity of an older person whose family and friends have all passed on. WORD FAMILYmorbidity: morbidities+/morbid: morbidity, morbidly, morbidness USAGE EXAMPLESBefore drilling starts, it is crucial to collect baseline data to track any related increase in morbidity and mortality. Nature(Nov 29, 2016) The findings were reported in a new study of 13 babies in Brazil published Tuesday in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. New York Times(Nov 22, 2016) Both reports were published in the Sept. 30 issue of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. US News(Sep 30, 2016) 1n the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper morbidness, unwholesomeness wholesomeness the quality of being beneficial and generally good for you harmfulness, noisomeness, noxiousness the quality of being noxious perniciousness, toxicitygrave harmfulness or deadliness deadliness, lethalitythe quality of being deadly jejuneness, jejunityquality of lacking nutritive value putrescence, rottennessthe quality of rotting and becoming putrid unhealthfulnessthe quality of promoting poor health fatalitythe quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters insalubriousness, insalubritythe quality of being insalubrious and debilitating quality an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone 2n the relative incidence of a particular disease Hyper incidence, relative incidence the relative frequency of occurrence of something 3n an abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind his fear of being alone verges on morbidity Syn|Hyper morbidness cognitive state, state of mind the state of a person's cognitive processes |
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