morbidnessn.
/ˈmɔːbᵻdnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈmɔrbədnəs/ The quality or state of being morbid; morbidity; an instance of this.
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craze1534
morbidness1668
mental illness1788
psychopathy1847
phrenopathy1853
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infectiona1398
morbosity1646
morbidness1668
diseasiness1674
morbidity1721
mischief1843
1668 H. More Divine Dialogues ii. iv. 184 To which he adds..the Morbidness of the Seasons of the Year, and the frequentness of untimely death.
a1680 J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) i. 178 By some weakness or morbidness of mind tumbling into so foul an errour.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1777 II. 151 To consider such indifference as a failure of reason, morbidness of mind.
1850 N. Hawthorne Scarlet Let. x. 156 A certain morbidness, to which sick hearts are liable, had..rendered him suspicious of all mankind.
1883 Harper's Mag. Mar. 633/2 The story [is] free from any element of morbidness.
1907 E. von Arnim Fräulein Schmidt lxvii. 359 I don't think I'm generally morbid, but to-day I indulged in a perfect orgy of morbidness.
1978 N. Henderson Jrnl. 21 Apr. (1994) 162 I had little time for morbidness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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