morbidness

1. 1.

   an abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind

   “his fear of being alone verges on morbidity”

   Synonymsmorbidity

   Broadercognitive state
2. 2.

   the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you

   Synonymsunwholesomenessmorbidity

   Broaderquality

   Narrowerharmfulnessperniciousnessdeadlinessputrescenceunhealthfulness

Other forms of morbidness

plural

morbidnesses·

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 morbidness

What does morbidness mean?

morbidness means "an abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in morbidness?

morbidness has 3 syllables: mor-bid-ness. The stress falls on "mor".

What is another word for morbidness?

Close synonyms include morbidity, unwholesomeness, morbidity. 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 morbidness a common word?

morbidness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.