Meaning & use
morbidity
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The state of being diseased, or an unhealthy preoccupation with death and disease; in medicine, the rate of disease in a population.
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The study tracked morbidity rates among smokers over two decades.
His morbidity showed in the way he always steered conversations toward death.
A note on using this word
In medical and statistical contexts, "morbidity" refers to illness rates, while "mortality" refers to death rates -- the two are easy to confuse.
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