morbidity

Other forms of morbidity

plural

morbidities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about morbidity

What does morbidity mean?

morbidity means "the relative incidence of a particular disease". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in morbidity?

morbidity has 4 syllables: mor-bid-i-ty. The stress falls on "bid". In IPA it is /mɔɹˈbɪdəti/.

What is another word for morbidity?

Close synonyms include morbidness, unwholesomeness, morbidness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is morbidity a common word?

morbidity is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with morbidity?

1 word rhymes with morbidity. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.