morbosity

English

Etymology

Latin morbositas.

Noun

morbosity (countable and uncountable, plural morbosities)

1. A diseased state; unhealthiness.
   • 1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:

     For as the inference is fair, affirmatively deduced from the action to the organ, that they have eies because they see; so it is also from the organ to the action, that they have eies, therefore some sight designed; if we take the intention of Nature in every species, and except the casuall impediments, or morbosities in individuals.

2. a morbid feature

References

• “morbosity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.