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Morbidness

Morbidness \Mor"bid*ness\, n. The quality or state of being morbid; morbidity.

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morbidness

n. The property of being morbid.

WordNet
morbidness

n. the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you [syn: unwholesomeness, morbidity] [ant: wholesomeness]

Usage examples of "morbidness".

Small reason was there to doubt, then, that ever since that almost fatal encounter, Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness against the whale, all the more fell for that in his frantic morbidness he at last came to identify with him, not only all his bodily woes, but all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations.

Nor will it at all detract from him, dramatically regarded, if either by birth or other circumstances, he have what seems a half wilful overruling morbidness at the bottom of his nature.