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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
morbid/ˈmɔːbɪd/
▶adjective
- 1 characterized by or appealing to an abnormal and unhealthy interest in unpleasant subjects, especially death and disease.
- 2 Medicine of the nature of or indicative of disease.
– derivatives
morbidity noun,
morbidly adverb,
morbidness noun.
morbidity noun,
morbidly adverb,
morbidness noun.
– origin C17: from L. morbidus, from morbus ‘disease’.
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